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 psl. |
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... one's garner . Death keeps no calendar . Men fear death as children to go in the dark . Better to go to bed supperless than to get up in debt . Span . He that gets out of debt , grows rich . Deeds are fruits , words are but leaves ...
... one's garner . Death keeps no calendar . Men fear death as children to go in the dark . Better to go to bed supperless than to get up in debt . Span . He that gets out of debt , grows rich . Deeds are fruits , words are but leaves ...
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... one's faults are not written on their foreheads . Better pass a danger once than be always in fear . Ital . Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeplc . Reckon right , and February hath thirty - one days . He that ...
... one's faults are not written on their foreheads . Better pass a danger once than be always in fear . Ital . Fear not the loss of the bell more than the loss of the steeplc . Reckon right , and February hath thirty - one days . He that ...
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... one's garden . ( An allusion to the me of a plant so called , i . e . Rhabar barum monachorum . ) He who hath much pease may put the more in the pot . Let every pedlar carry his own burden . There's no companion like the penny . Span ...
... one's garden . ( An allusion to the me of a plant so called , i . e . Rhabar barum monachorum . ) He who hath much pease may put the more in the pot . Let every pedlar carry his own burden . There's no companion like the penny . Span ...
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... one's rest till the stomach be well emptied ; that is , if we eat suppers , till two hours at least after supper . For ( as the old physicians tell us ) though the second and third concoctions be best performed in sleep , yet the first ...
... one's rest till the stomach be well emptied ; that is , if we eat suppers , till two hours at least after supper . For ( as the old physicians tell us ) though the second and third concoctions be best performed in sleep , yet the first ...
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... one's spectacles . Cream - pot love . Such as young fellows pretend to dairy - maids , to get cream and other good things of them . Some say cupboard love . Cuckolds are Christians . The story is well known of the old woman , who ...
... one's spectacles . Cream - pot love . Such as young fellows pretend to dairy - maids , to get cream and other good things of them . Some say cupboard love . Cuckolds are Christians . The story is well known of the old woman , who ...
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A handbook of proverbs– Comprising an entire republ. of English proverbs ... Henry George Bohn,John Ray Visos knygos peržiūra - 1855 |
A Hand-book of Proverbs– Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's ... Henry George Bohn Visos knygos peržiūra - 1855 |
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