The red end of the spectrum, being lowest in vibratory rate, would correspond to the physical nature, proverbially more sluggish than the emotional and mental.
If Italian operas are proverbially silly, we are to recollect that this is not an Italian, but a French one; and that it is by the most popular comic writer of France.
They areproverbially squalid, bitter, and beggarly.
The United States is proverbially the paradise of what it is, perhaps, now behind the times to term the gentler sex.
Sport ceases to be sport as soon as it is carried on as if it were war, where "all" is proverbially "fair.
I warned them against too much indulgence, as that would incapacitate them for the pleasures to come, but youth is proverbially obstinate and they went their whooping way rejoicing.
The stamping out of vice is carried on vigorously, but vice is a proverbially obstinate disease.
When the people can afford it, a priest is brought to perform the sad rite of burial, but the Paraguayan Paî is proverbially drunken and lazy.
Are you not aware that chemicals are proverbially fickle as woman, and clockwork as capricious as the very devil?
With the proverbially tender heart of the parent, he found himself unable to sacrifice either of these offsprings of his art; and decided to expose them on alternate days.
Simon Rattar was proverbially cautious, but to-day his caution struck his visitor as quite remarkable.
Silent Simon was proverbially cautious, but it seemed to his visitor that his demeanour this morning exceeded all reasonable limits.
Shrill and terrible though the Indian war-cry is proverbially known to be, it was excelled in appalling wildness by the shriek which arose from the Esquimaux, as they hurried tumultuously into their canoes and put off to sea.
The American mind is said to be proverbially open to argument based upon dollars and cents.
Children are proverbially keen-sighted, and they seem to have a natural faculty for logic, so far as they themselves are concerned.
His character for veracity is questionable, and among the miners of California, where he is known, any extravagant tale is proverbially called "one of Jem Beckwourth's lies.
It is proverbially safe to prophesy when one knows; and it is but this safe prediction which we make every day of child or bud, where we can hardly fail to see the growing man, the coming flower.
Another source of regret--entirely sentimental, no doubt; but are not sailors proverbially sentimental?
The magazine was frequently made the publishing medium of verses, the authorship of which is usually religiously veiled; youthful poets are proverbially shy, and prefer to blush unseen.
The book on England excited most attention, and was reviewed in that country with as much asperity as if its own travellers were not proverbially the most shameless libellers that ever abused the hospitality of nations.
The old Emperor himself was an inveterate matchmaker, and the House of Austria had been proverbially fortunate in its alliances.
Physicians are proverbiallyshy of their own medicines," said he.
Does not this show us how very cautious we ought to be in forming hasty conclusions from appearances which are proverbially deceptive?
Anyhow, the name seems to be used proverbially as = "a slow coach.
Meton's year" was proverbiallyused for an indefinitely long period.
I am imaginative, but it was difficult, in truth, to connect this staid and sober personage with the idea of the American satirist, however proverbially dissimilar authors may be to their own creations.
Capitalistic management is proverbially unrivalled for two qualities in which bureaucratic management is as proverbially deficient--economy and enterprise.
The people of the place were greatly addicted to wine; the taverniers de Lestines proverbially sold good wine; the Flemings were proverbially of a joyous disposition-- "Ceux de Hainaut chantent a pleines gorges.
Here and there was a countenance of serious determination, but the great mass were gay and reckless, as soldiers proverbially are, of the risks the future might hold in reserve.
A little learning is proverbially a dangerous thing; probably the most dangerous form which a little learning can assume is to know a fact, and to draw utterly baseless and absurd inferences from it.
Had the English general been less hampered by the political conditions, he might well have made Massena rue his audacity in trying so proverbially dangerous a thing as a flank march in presence of the enemy.
Councils of war proverbially do not fight, and this was no exception.
What does not go beyond our own personal sensible acquaintance must be for us the most certain: the "evidence of the senses" is proverbially the least open to question.
The best instance of it, according to him, is our acquaintance with ourselves; yet self-knowledge is proverbially rare and difficult.
Peter Faneuil's heart was proverbially warm, and sensitive to the necessities and distresses of his neighbor; and he seems to have cherished the true scriptural construction of that ubiquitary word.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "proverbially" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
