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For coffee, an old wives' tale will suffice.† (source)
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Vaguely she supposed she had hoped that the flowing blood would wash the wound clean ...did that really happen, or was it just an old wives' tale?† (source)
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And then she laughed, and said it was only a foolish old wives' tale, and she ate the third apple, and set the other two on the window ledge to keep until the morning, and I ate my own apple; and we turned to making fun of Mrs. Alderman Parkinson's corsets; but underneath all the funning she was upset.† (source)
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There is truth to the old wives' tale that women who are pregnant glow, and I remember thinking that I wanted to look just like them when I grew up.† (source)
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DRUMMOND You murder a wife, it isn't nearly as bad as murdering an old wives' tale.† (source)
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Five weeks I've given you to pay me the rent—five weeks out of the generosity and goodness of my heart—and now you tell me this old wives' tale!† (source)
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It was an old wives' tale of the same category as that in which it was imputed to masturbation such scourges as acne, or warts, or madness.†
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