The irregularities of the friars became proverbial throughout the republic, and respectable families regarded it as a calamity, or, even sometimes, as a degradation, to hear their members pronounce a monastic vow.
Pisthetaerus modifies the Greek proverbial saying, "To what use cannot hands be put?
The gardens of Adonis were so empty that they afforded proverbial expression, and the principal part thereof was empty spaces, with herbs and flowers in pots.
There is a proverbial saying there, that she who is worthy of being decorated with jessamine is rich enough for any husband.
Be in print'; a proverbial expression, to show order and regularity; like type in print.
It is proverbial among ministers that "the best preachers are needed in the country.
The advice has become proverbial in theological seminaries, "Go to the country for five years.
Sir Caryll's visage, black as a Senegambian's, was as long as theproverbial arm of coincidence.
The only thing that could have drowned the sound of the proverbial dropping pin was the low snoring of one of the sleeping dogs.
But on the comparison floated a straw, and like the proverbial drowning man, he clutched at it.
To us, at least, familiarity with the many phases of railroad traveling has not engendered the proverbial consequence.
The affair had exceeded the time of the proverbial "nine days' wonder," and it was only in the City or to those deeply interested that the good news became really known.
Footnote: See Proverbial Expressions] And now I leave you to your chance, which I hope will plan better for you than you have done for yourself.
The workmanship surpassed the material; [Footnote: See Proverbial Expressions.
This is the famous Penelope's web, which is used as a proverbial expression for anything which is perpetually doing but never done.
If he expected me to race downstairs as soon as he was out of ear-shot, he was mistaken, for I hit the sack like the proverbial ton of crushed mortar.
Another morsel of satire against the above science lurks in the very ancient proverbial saying, "When Adam delv'd and Eve span, Where was then the gentleman?
The orations of these heroes were made up of proverbial saws, a proof of the great influence they must have had with the common people.
Farmer has given proof that this term wasproverbial for a fool.
The title is borrowed from a proverbial saying much older than the time of Shakspeare.
There is no doubt that this is an allusion to some now forgotten sport or game, which gave rise to a proverbial expression, Dun is in the mire, used when a person was at a stand, or plunged into any difficulty.
We have still preserved this proverbial saying in another form.
Their dialect, full of proverbial expressions, and unintelligible by its elision of consonants, seems a barbarous jargon to the Castilian of Salamanca or Valladolid.
Gentillesse de Cusance" had in whilom Burgundy become a proverbial saying.
For its gaiety, and noise, and lavish hospitality, and protracted merriment, its finery and its curious ways, the Wendish wedding has become proverbialthroughout Germany.
But their practice accords ill with this proverbial wisdom.
Shaftesbury, with his proverbial sagacity, saw that a violent reaction was at hand, and that all things were tending towards a crisis resembling that of 1640.
My presence of mind in emergencies is proverbial among those who know me.
Still pursued by his proverbial ill-luck, the poor wretch's leg was broken by a kick from a horse.
But if Virgil is referring, not to the Amyclae near Naples, but to the original Amyclae in Laconia, then the proverbial taciturnity of those inhabiting the latter country offers sufficient explanation.
In the Roman writers Catiline is always the proverbial scoundrel and Cato is always taken as the model of rigid and exalted virtue.
The proverbial facility of the Yankees in despatching their dinners in the least possible time seems to have been taken advantage of and reduced to a system on the Lowell corporations.
Landlords have apparently the three proverbial courses open to them.
His statements, however, are strictly of that class of travellers' tales told by car-drivers, and must be taken with more than the proverbial grain of seasoning.
By June the citizens of Valladolid already regarded Don Quixote and Sancho Panza as proverbial types.
Under these circumstances she can hypnotize herself and "produce the desired result more often than by watching the proverbial sheep follow one another over the wall.
Such an arrangement shows a merited appreciation of the proverbial "ounce of prevention," and when serious difficulties do arise materially counteracts the tendency to panic which is exhibited by so many young mothers.
The whole question seems to me to lie in the proverbial nutshell, and to be solvable by the proverbial common sense.
The proverbial careless child of the party made the proverbial backward step off from the pier into the water.
