A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical IndexG. Bell and sons, 1899 - 583 pages |
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... woman , and a slash'd gown , find always some nail in the way . Ital . One may sooner fall than rise . Fall not out with a friend for a trifle . If I were to fall backwards , I should break my nose . - Ital . i . e . I am so foiled in ...
... woman , and a slash'd gown , find always some nail in the way . Ital . One may sooner fall than rise . Fall not out with a friend for a trifle . If I were to fall backwards , I should break my nose . - Ital . i . e . I am so foiled in ...
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... woman's painting breed thy stomach's fainting . Painted pictures are dead speakers . On painting and fighting look aloof off . He that will enter into Paradise must have a good key . Say no ill of the year till it be past . Pardon all ...
... woman's painting breed thy stomach's fainting . Painted pictures are dead speakers . On painting and fighting look aloof off . He that will enter into Paradise must have a good key . Say no ill of the year till it be past . Pardon all ...
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... giudicar la nave , stando in terra . The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion . Silence seldom doth harm . Silence is the best ornament of a woman . Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen 18 PROVERBIAL SENTENCES .
... giudicar la nave , stando in terra . The chamber of sickness is the chapel of devotion . Silence seldom doth harm . Silence is the best ornament of a woman . Silks and satins put out the fire in the kitchen 18 PROVERBIAL SENTENCES .
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... woman tɔ her grave . I know not the reason of this proverb . Parsley was wont to be esteemed a very wholesome herb , however prepared ; only by the ancients it was for- bidden them that had the falling sickness ; and modern experience ...
... woman tɔ her grave . I know not the reason of this proverb . Parsley was wont to be esteemed a very wholesome herb , however prepared ; only by the ancients it was for- bidden them that had the falling sickness ; and modern experience ...
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... woman , and a bottle of wine , Are sweet for a season , but last for a time . Love comes in at the windows , and goes out at the doors . Love and a cough cannot be hid . Amor tussisque non celantur . The French and Italians add to these ...
... woman , and a bottle of wine , Are sweet for a season , but last for a time . Love comes in at the windows , and goes out at the doors . Love and a cough cannot be hid . Amor tussisque non celantur . The French and Italians add to these ...
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