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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... live like a beast . Piscia chiaro , & incaca al medico . i . e . Piss clear , and defy the physician . Apres la poire , ou le vin ou le prétre . i . e . After pear , wine or the priest . Sobre melon , vino fellon . i . e . After melon ...
... live like a beast . Piscia chiaro , & incaca al medico . i . e . Piss clear , and defy the physician . Apres la poire , ou le vin ou le prétre . i . e . After pear , wine or the priest . Sobre melon , vino fellon . i . e . After melon ...
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... live by love , as larks by leeks . This is I conceive in derision of such expressions as living by love . Larks and leeks beginning with the same letter , helped it up to be a pro- verb . Follow love , and it will flee ; Flee love , and ...
... live by love , as larks by leeks . This is I conceive in derision of such expressions as living by love . Larks and leeks beginning with the same letter , helped it up to be a pro- verb . Follow love , and it will flee ; Flee love , and ...
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... live , because they make none when they die . England is the Paradise of women . And well it may be called so , as might easily be demonstrated in many particulars , were not all the world already therein satisfied . Hence it hath been ...
... live , because they make none when they die . England is the Paradise of women . And well it may be called so , as might easily be demonstrated in many particulars , were not all the world already therein satisfied . Hence it hath been ...
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... live in a gravel - pit . Spoken of a wary , sparing , niggardly person . This growed by night . Spoken of a crooked stick or tree , it could not see to grow . Great doings at Gregory's ; heat the oven twice for a custard . He that ...
... live in a gravel - pit . Spoken of a wary , sparing , niggardly person . This growed by night . Spoken of a crooked stick or tree , it could not see to grow . Great doings at Gregory's ; heat the oven twice for a custard . He that ...
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... & c . He rose with his a ― e upwards . A sign of good luck . He would live as long as old Rosse of Pottern , who lived till all the world was weary of him . Let him alone with the saint's bell , and give 58 AN ALPHABET OF.
... & c . He rose with his a ― e upwards . A sign of good luck . He would live as long as old Rosse of Pottern , who lived till all the world was weary of him . Let him alone with the saint's bell , and give 58 AN ALPHABET OF.
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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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