A hard thing for Miss Barton to say, and for the girl to hear; but it must be remembered that this is a training as well as a finishing school, and that there is an old adage with much truth in it, that "manners make the man.
A short life and a merry one,' seems theadage in favour here.
I never heard a mean action yet, but there was a Scotch adage to warrant it," muttered Mark, in a whisper inaudible by the rest.
She recalled the Western adage concerning towns with no Jews in them and smiled faintly.
Well, I shall not mind the old adage about wisteria blossoms and tears.
Now here is something that may help you to remember the old adage that 'silence is golden.
She agreed with the adage that if you can't make a mistake you can't make anything.
He held in utter contempt the old adage that having made your bed it is necessary to lie upon it.
An old Latin adage declares that Camphora per nares emasculat mares, "Camphor in excess makes men eunuchs," even when imbibed only through the air as a continuous practice.
Country folk in many places think it unlucky to sow Parsley, or to move its roots; and a rustic adage runs thus: "Fried parsley brings a man to his saddle, and a Woman to her grave.
Quot homines, tot [xiv] sententioe," is anadage signally verified when a fresh venture is made on the waters of chartered opinion.
As to the yield, an adage was current, that cotton would promise more and do less and promise less and do more than any other green thing that grew.
But I have had, once again, to discover that the adage that whoso seeks peace will ensue it, is a somewhat hasty generalisation.
It would appear that the adage about the receiver being as bad as the thief was not current in the ninth century.
Indeed the adage saith, "Faith is fair and perfidy foul.
Les grands coups se font respecter toujours," was the maxim of a great tactician in war and politics; and the adage is no less true in questions of social life.
I have heard that, in contradiction of the adage that `there is honour among thieves', there are occasionally to be found among the slavers a few that are not above attacking other slavers and stealing their slaves from them.
Have you forgotten the homely old adage that `It's never too late to mend'?
War, like misfortune, introduces people to strange bed-fellows, and I never saw that adage so strikingly confirmed.
An old adage * says, that a traveller already disencumbered of his property, feels little uneasiness in presence of a highwayman; and certainly, to me the appearance of this rakish schooner was a matter of perfect indifference.
My dear Tony, there is a vulgar adage about the impolicy of quarrelling with one's bread-and-butter; but how far more reprehensible would it be to quarrel with the face of the man who cuts it?
I don't want to be generous,--the adage says one ought to begin by being just.
It's the old adage of the ill wind," said Tony, laughing.
I say to it what I have often said to a difficulty, what the old Scotch adage says of 'the stout heart to the stey brae.
If there is truth in the adage of "give a dog a bad name and hang him," the poor child has little else in perspective than the gallows.
So, merely repeating to the recent promulgator of the old adage his own words, "Look before you leap," I passed on.
It was at length explained to him; but the struggles he had made to comprehend the adage fixed it deep in his mind.
While they were groping their way through the crazy lanes and winding streets of the town an incident occurred which came near exemplifying the old adage about the cup and the lip.
Unfortunately, Fate bereft this unhappy princess of the chance of proving the truth of the old adageabout fools speaking the truth.
It is well known that criminals have little or no fidelity to each other, that "honour among thieves" is a mendacious adage provided any of them can see substantial profit in betraying his associates.
There is an old adage that a wizard is ten times worse than a witch, and many a witch hath died during these last twenty years.
Under the adage Ne bos quidem pereat Erasmus has given a description of the decent way of obtaining a Maecenas.
In the adage Scarabeus aquilam quaerit he represents the prince under the image of the Eagle as the great cruel robber and persecutor.
He expanded it into the adage Dulce bellum inexpertis, which was inserted into the Adagia edition of 1515, published by Froben and afterwards also printed separately.
As the adage of the "gift horse" is of tolerably general acceptation, I eat and was thankful, mingling my acknowledgments from time to time with some questions about the owners of the mansion, concerning whom I could not help feeling curious.
Between Sarclash and Adage there is a long ridge--very difficult in places.
A few minutes later the journey toward Adage was resumed.
Sarclash, and the ice-green crest of gigantic Adage itself, which he could only take in by throwing his head right back.
Straight in front, like an enormously wide, smoothly descending road, lay the great ridge which went on to Adage, though Adage itself was out of sight.
