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  • Marie-Laure's great-uncle, locked with several hundred others inside the gates of Fort National, a quarter mile offshore, squints up and thinks, Locusts, and an Old Testament proverb comes back to him from some cobwebbed hour of parish school: The locusts have no king, yet all of them go out in ranks.†   (source)
  • I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs.†   (source)
  • Having spoken plainly so far, Okoye said the next half a dozen sentences in proverbs.†   (source)
  • She liked to quote well-worn proverbs and wise sayings whenever she had the chance to teach one of her many children or grandchildren.†   (source)
  • "I would suggest Proverbs, 24th Chapter, 21st verse," said the old minister, with a canny gleam in his eye which Kit understood as John began to read.†   (source)
  • The historian David Arkush once compared Russian and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are striking.†   (source)
  • It was a proverb Old Nan had taught him as a boy.†   (source)
  • The proverbs say 'He who harps on a matter alienates his friend.'†   (source)
  • PROVERBS 29:18.†   (source)
  • I want to take a fresh look at things and form my own opinion, not just ape my parents, as in the proverb "The apple never falls far from the tree."†   (source)
  • Kitsey had apologized more than once for Em's 'brusqueness' but this, in Hobie's phrase, took the proverbial cake.†   (source)
  • —Proverb 42, The Book of Shhh†   (source)
  • There were a couple of possibilities: one, the helmet was malfunctioning; two, this troll was deaf as the proverbial post.†   (source)
  • An old proverb recurred to her: God looks after drunks and little children.†   (source)
  • And randy as the proverbial goat.†   (source)
  • They have a proverb that says a lot: I against my brothers; my brothers and I against my cousins; my brothers, my cousins, and I against the world.†   (source)
  • But I am also reminded of Proverbs twenty-three, verse twenty-four.†   (source)
  • Most of the clubs' fighters consisted of blacks or Latinos, boxing for us being the proverbial way out.†   (source)
  • Oh, is that a proverb in Russia, too?†   (source)
  • Is this a proverb or a maxim?†   (source)
  • Proverbs cautions that the sayings of the wise are 'riddles,' while Corinthians talks of 'hidden wisdom.'†   (source)
  • -Arab proverb Dustfinger was hiding behind a chestnut tree when Meggie ran past him.†   (source)
  • "You're the proverbial diamond in the rough," she'd said to him once, touching his nose lightly with the tip of her electrifying finger.†   (source)
  • "Lucky" is a strange word to use to describe my situation, but a part of me does feel fortunate that I didn't get hit by the proverbial bus.†   (source)
  • Other times I'd be sitting beside her on the couch, looking at the Bible and watching Jamie out of the corner of my eye at the same time, and we'd come across a passage or a psalm, maybe even a proverb, and I'd ask her what she thought about it.†   (source)
  • "Oh, like in Proverbs, where wisdom is pictured as a woman calling out in the streets, trying to find anyone who'll listen to her?"†   (source)
  • We drive to a store in Santa Monica and Nathaniel riffles through the stock for more than an hour, the proverbial kid in a candy store.†   (source)
  • Think you carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.†   (source)
  • Now I opened it and began to read in Proverbs.†   (source)
  • But in a home setting, those same qualities also meant they could be like the proverbial bull in the china closet.†   (source)
  • First, all the sugar must be chewed out of Mexican gum, then the bartender gives a few slips of paper to the aspirant, who writes either a proverb or a sentimental remark on the strip.†   (source)
  • This summer school—Dan's lifeline—had been the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel all school year long.†   (source)
  • The proverb appeared to describe the location of Morne Michel, the most distant of all the settlements in Zanmi Lasante's catchment area.†   (source)
  • It is a patriotic song that can also be read as a proverb, as a personal credo for endurance.†   (source)
  • The attempt to establish insanity as a defense because of serious injuries in accidents years before, and headaches and occasional fainting spells of Hickock, was like grasping at the proverbial straw.†   (source)
  • -CHINESE PROVERB By the time you read this, I hope to be dead.†   (source)
  • PROVERBS 4: 16-17 I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.†   (source)
  • In Mqhekezweni, I felt not unlike the proverbial country boy who comes to the big city.†   (source)
  • "My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today," he said to Blackberry, quoting a rabbit proverb.†   (source)
  • I was the proverbially overprepared student; I had to have a standby writing utensil.†   (source)
  • He still had a long way to go, but there was definitely a light appearing at the end of the proverbial tunnel.†   (source)
  • Like the proverbial butterfly that flaps its wings on one continent and eventually causes a hurricane on another, Norma McCorvey dramatically altered the course of events without intending to.†   (source)
  • "You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual," Greg says, quoting an African proverb.†   (source)
  • "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding," Kelley replied, quoting Proverbs 3:5-6.†   (source)
  • —Persian proverb IN PAKISTAN'S KARAKORAM, bristling across an area barely one hundred miles wide, more than sixty of the world's tallest mountains lord their severe alpine beauty over a witnessless high-altitude wilderness.†   (source)
  • I was worried that he might be falling over the proverbial edge.†   (source)
  • Death was proverbial with him, the thief in the night about which all his goodness or courage could do nothing.†   (source)
  • I had thought of all these possibilities and more, but never that of Rosa's death, despite my proverbial pessimism, which always leads me to expect the worst.†   (source)
  • A virgin audience like Colonel Scheisskopf was grist for General Peckem's mill, a stimulating opportunity to throw open his whole dazzling erudite treasure house of puns, wisecracks, slanders, homilies, anecdotes, proverbs, epigrams, apophthegms, bon mots and other pungent sayings.†   (source)
  • I remembered a wise, beautiful African proverb: "It takes a whole village to raise a good child."†   (source)
  • "He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife," Cedric recalls Long commanding, quoting Proverbs 28:24, "but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat."†   (source)
  • The sea was the proverbial "breadbasket" of her people, provider of prawns and fish.†   (source)
  • America was purring down the proverbial highway like a well-oiled truck.†   (source)
  • —PROVERBS CHAPTER ONE.†   (source)
  • Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel," Padre Esteban said quoting Proverbs 27:9 (KJV), as he methodically rubbed the oil into the glove and worked the leather as if he were kneading a ball of dough.†   (source)
  • This place gives me the proverbial creeps.†   (source)
  • In other words, we're caught between the proverbial rock and hard place."†   (source)
  • I took a long pull and savored the fact I survived, another bite out of the proverbial elephant.†   (source)
  • Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips. — PROVERBS 27:2†   (source)
  • The angel is like the proverbial gold mine and they the lucky miners.†   (source)
  • There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India.†   (source)
  • There is an old Indian proverb which has inspired me in the work of my adult life.†   (source)
  • "Go to sleep or Max McDaniels will get you!" said Nix, intoning it as though it was a proverb.†   (source)
  • My grandma says that's a good thing because there's a Proverb that says something like "even a total fool can appear wise if she keeps her mouth shut."†   (source)
  • He is inundated with Howardisms suddenly; all true, those old and wrinkled maxims, proverbs, clichés.†   (source)
  • Abby had not specified a Bible reading, but Reverend Alban provided one anyhow—a long passage from Proverbs about a virtuous woman.†   (source)
  • My mother, equally big on little proverbs, often said, oh, what a tangled web we weave, a little lie will lead to a big one; a child who cheats in school will grow up to steal.†   (source)
  • As it says in Proverbs 22:6 (KJV): "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old he will not depart from it."†   (source)
  • A FRIEND LOVES AT ALL TIMES, AND A BROTHER IS BORN FOR A TIME OF ADVERSITY. — PROVERBS 17:17†   (source)
  • (BROWN turns) Remember the wisdom of Solomon in the Book of Proverbs—(Softly) "He that troubleth his own house …. shall inherit the wind."†   (source)
  • I was the proverbial five minutes ahead of the posse, but I was sure I could take advantage of it and escape.†   (source)
  • — Proverbs XXII:6 There were other floggings but darn few.†   (source)
  • The confidence that we have always had as a people is not simply some romantic dream or a proverb in a dusty book that we read just on the Fourth of July.†   (source)
  • The prosperity of its merchants and the fabulous fertility of its soil were proverbial.†   (source)
  • It's been rainin' since dark, but you don't ever know a thing like that— it's proverbial.†   (source)
  • Then the house was suddenly full of relatives, friends, hysteria, and confusion and I quickly left my mother and the children to the care of those impressive women, who, inNegro communities at least, automatically appear at times of bereavement armed with lotions, proverbs, and patience, and an ability to cook.†   (source)
  • But the Ibo people have a proverb that when a man says yes his chi says yes also.†   (source)
  • She'll just give me one of her blank looks and rattle off a proverb from The Book of Shhh.†   (source)
  • Here that is not a proverb to be spoken aloud.†   (source)
  • "The rocks in the water don't know how the rocks in the sun feel," said a Haitian proverb.†   (source)
  • Old Nan always said, and of late the messenger ravens had been proving the truth of the proverb.†   (source)
  • "I f God does not bring it, the earth will not give it" is a typical Russian proverb.†   (source)
  • The boy remembered an old proverb from his country.†   (source)
  • That's either a very old or very new Chinese proverb, I don't know which.'†   (source)
  • That's a proverb Reverend Justus probably hasn't encountered yet.†   (source)
  • The dead from the dead, as the old proverb has it; only a corpse may speak.†   (source)
  • Your mom used to tell me this Chinese proverb.†   (source)
  • -CHINESE PROVERB Sterling isn't the inner city.†   (source)
  • There's an old proverb, Larry," the reverend said.†   (source)
  • "Our children's children will hear a good story," answered Hazel, quoting a rabbit proverb.†   (source)
  • The rabbits' proverb is better expressed.†   (source)
  • They have an ancient proverb reading Women and Cats.†   (source)
  • That period confirmed the ancient proverb, "Man is a wolf to man."†   (source)
  • The proverb says revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but Ronson Fast-Lite had yet to be invented when they made that one up.†   (source)
  • And to reveal what is truly valuable in life, my aunt Fatimeh always uses the Shushtari proverb "Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it's a hollow walnut shell."†   (source)
  • He talked a little more about the poor, abused door and what it meant and then ticked off an appropriate proverb.†   (source)
  • She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.†   (source)
  • There's a Dutch proverb: "High and dry, safe and sound," but it obviously doesn't apply to wartime (guns!†   (source)
  • "What the proverb means is that if you do something in a hurry, without thinking about it, then when you do stop and think, you'll regret it."†   (source)
  • The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share."†   (source)
  • Kung leisurely gathering mongongo nuts, or the French peasant sleeping away the winter, or anyone else living in something other than the world of rice cultivation, that proverb would be unthinkable.†   (source)
  • Everybody laughed heartily except Okonkwo, who laughed uneasily because, as the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.†   (source)
  • FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1944 My dearest Kitty, The proverb "Misfortunes never come singly" definitely applies to today.†   (source)
  • I hate that proverb.†   (source)
  • " "Misty," Sally Jean said, looking as if she were on the verge of spouting some proverb when my mother burst out laughing.†   (source)
  • They have a proverb they repeat so frequently that it covers oceans of guilt: 'One does not look a gift horse in the mouth.'†   (source)
  • "Cleva," my father said and came into the room, "haven't you ever heard that old proverb about talking in the cemetery?"†   (source)
  • Mrs. Poole barely got the word out of her mouth before Sally Jean launched into a newly learned proverb: There are two special gifts we give our children; one is roots, the other is wings.†   (source)
  • The people you worship go in for proverbs, but they've forgotten one proverb-'You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink'-and they've got into the habit of liberating and of showering benefits on just those people who haven't asked for them.†   (source)
  • NW: Besides, she would be the proverbial rebel without a cause.†   (source)
  • Those were the proverbial arrows in my quiver, and I had nothing else.†   (source)
  • I've kept that practice as a daily habit and especially enjoy the book of Proverbs.†   (source)
  • NW: Well, it did thicken the proverbial plot.†   (source)
  • The words of Proverbs condemned me, but they also gave me hope.†   (source)
  • You want parables and proverbs, go to church.†   (source)
  • When was I going to see the proverbial tunnel of white light I'd heard about?†   (source)
  • "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine," she loved to say, quoting Proverbs.†   (source)
  • "Faithful are the wounds of a friend," she concluded, quoting Proverbs.†   (source)
  • As we ate breakfast together as a family, we would read through Psalms and Proverbs.†   (source)
  • Besides, there's a verse in Proverbs about just a few words being better than many.†   (source)
  • Joel Chandler Harris, Proverbs of Uncle Remus†   (source)
  • Proverbs 11:2.†   (source)
  • The Grim Reaper was staring you in the face and the fear of dying with your Wish still in your proverbial pocket, ungranted, led you to rush toward the first Wish you could think of; and you, like so many others, chose the cold and artificial pleasures of the theme park.†   (source)
  • As it was, my refusal angered him so he and his two Neanderthal companions tore open the bag, scattered the manuscript in the mud, and beat me within the proverbial inch of my life.†   (source)
  • Dark sayings, Langdon mused, knowing this strange phrase made numerous odd appearances in Proverbs as well as in Psalm 78.†   (source)
  • On Lusus or Tau Ceti Center or a dozen other of the old Web worlds, the deaths of a thousand people add up to minor news-items for datasphere short-term or the inside pages of the morning paper-but in a city of six thousand on a colony of fifty thousand, a dozen murders-like the proverbial sentence to be hanged in the morning-tend to focus one's attention wonderfully well.†   (source)
  • Going underground or into hiding has become as routine as the proverbial pipe and slippers that used to await the man of the house after a long day at work.†   (source)
  • Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.†   (source)
  • On the other hand, Arkush writes, Chinese proverbs are striking in their belief that "hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense."†   (source)
  • Proverbs 16:32 impressed me the most: "He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city" (RSV).†   (source)
  • I think the point is that those things are tiny and deadly and can find the proverbial needle in the biogenetically modified haystack.†   (source)
  • They shared the same taste for banana beer and the same proverbs and for the most part the same territories.†   (source)
  • Proverbs twenty-five, twenty-four.†   (source)
  • BY WISDOM A HOUSE IS BUILT, AND THROUGH UNDERSTANDING IT IS ESTABLISHED; THROUGH KNOWLEDGE ITS ROOMS ARE FILLED WITH RARE AND BEAUTIFUL TREASURES. — PROVERBS 24:3-4†   (source)
  • Larry sent his son off with Proverbs 3:5-6: "Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths."†   (source)
  • I say trying, because it was a sweltering August day, which was hard enough to fight on the island, but as Momma worked, her face shining with sweat, her hair plastered against her head, Grandma was reading aloud to her, in a voice that could be heard from the street, the section in Proverbs chapter six entitled, "The mischiefs of whoredom.†   (source)
  • They based this new rule on the admonition found in Proverbs 27:2: Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips.†   (source)
  • —PROVERBS 31:10-11, 28†   (source)
  • It certainly fit within the framework of the admonition of Proverbs 27:2 to "Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; a stranger, and not your own lips."†   (source)
  • And of all the women in all the towns who drive cars that need new tires, why, why did my dad have to pick the Queen of Proverbs?†   (source)
  • —PROVERBS 3:5-6†   (source)
  • Proverbs, that's what she had in common with my mother; but even my mother, who loved proverbs, found Sally Jean's to be a bit much, particularly the one Sally Jean framed and hung in their little guest bathroom which said, "We aim to please.†   (source)
  • (Thumbing hastily) Proverbs, wasn't it?†   (source)
  • You're like the proverbial pig that was allowed in the dining room and at once jumped onto the table.'†   (source)
  • The people you worship go in for proverbs, but they've forgotten one proverb-'You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink'-and they've got into the habit of liberating and of showering benefits on just those people who haven't asked for them.†   (source)
  • The Japanese have a proverb: "The gods only laugh when men pray to them for wealth."†   (source)
  • But you know the old proverb: 'A mirror in the hand is worth two on the wall.'†   (source)
  • Finally Agravaine quoted a Gaelic proverb, which she had also taught them.†   (source)
  • "Paper bleeds little," Robert Jordan quoted the proverb.†   (source)
  • Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes on?'†   (source)
  • "But every one belongs to every one else," he concluded, citing the hypnopaedic proverb.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom, if you care to alter the proverb.†   (source)
  • His clothes were solid and black with grease down the front of his coat and trousers, for besides tea he sold food also, which he cooked himself, and he was fond of saying, "There is a proverb, 'A good cook has never a clean coat," and so he considered himself justly and necessarily filthy.†   (source)
  • Mademoiselle, we have a proverb-†   (source)
  • "Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.†   (source)
  • He remembered a proverb - it came out of the recesses of his own childhood: his father had used it - 'The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.'†   (source)
  • And for no reason the stupid proverb of my schooldays ran through my mind, 'Time and Tide wait for no man.'†   (source)
  • Despite the ancient proverb.†   (source)
  • There was no one to tell he was afraid, nor to be afraid with him, and, lying alone, he did not know the Somali proverb that says a brave man is always frightened three times by a lion; when he first sees his track, when he first hears him roar and when he first confronts him.†   (source)
  • "Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb.†   (source)
  • But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness- cleanliness, not purity.†   (source)
  • Philip hated that proverb above all, and it seemed to him perfectly meaningless.†   (source)
  • You know the proverb, 'Loss and gain are brothers twain.'†   (source)
  • You may be able to tell better, since the proverb has it that the onlookers see most of the game.†   (source)
  • And you know, Mr. Balfour, we have a proverb in the country that evil-doers are aye evil-dreaders.†   (source)
  • You know the old proverb, 'Call a maid by a married name.'†   (source)
  • What one man has, the other loves, as the German proverb puts it," Hans Castorp contended.†   (source)
  • his story proves the truth of the Russian proverb that 'happiness is the right of certain classes!'†   (source)
  • The proverb you need to go by is 'Look before you leap'—especially into spare-room beds."†   (source)
  • Did you ever hear that useful Urdu proverb?†   (source)
  • Have you ever heard of that useful proverb?†   (source)
  • The old proverb says that 'it takes three generations to make a gentleman.'†   (source)
  • As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel.†   (source)
  • I was quite a proverb for it at Maple Grove.†   (source)
  • As a Russian proverb has it, 'Catch several hares and you won't catch one.'†   (source)
  • The attache repeated the English proverb.†   (source)
  • The proverb says, "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear."†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES The proverb says: One's own warm hearth And a good wife, are gold and jewels worth.†   (source)
  • The proverb says, 'They that cannot govern themselves cannot govern others.'†   (source)
  • An old proverb says, "Like master, like man."†   (source)
  • You know the Russian proverb, "The Russian peasant will cheat God Himself."†   (source)
  • There is a wise Latin proverb that is very much in point.†   (source)
  • 'Those who beg in silence starve in silence,' said Kim, quoting a native proverb.†   (source)
  • Isn't there some proverb about a reformed rake?†   (source)
  • Oh! do not bow and look surprised; you know the proverb all along this coast—"Corrupt as Lima."†   (source)
  • The Arabian proverb says, "A fig-tree, looking on a fig-tree, becometh fruitful."†   (source)
  • Kim quoted the proverb with a meditative cough, looking discreetly earthward.†   (source)
  • " 'Never despair of anything,' says the proverb."†   (source)
  • There is a proverb: "'Mariage un Mardi gras N'aura point enfants ingrats.†   (source)
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