All 12 Uses of
proverb
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- If I were sole owner we'd shake hands on it now, my dear Dantes, and call it settled; but I have a partner, and you know the Italian proverb—Chi ha compagno ha padrone—'He who has a partner has a master.'†
Chpt 1-2proverb = a well-known, short saying that is thought to communicate wisdom
- There is a wise Latin proverb that is very much in point.†
Chpt 5-6 *
- He was not rich, although the wealth of his family had passed into a proverb, and I heard the phrase very often, 'As rich as a Spada.'†
Chpt 17-18
- Born in the neighborhood of Arles, she had shared in the beauty for which its women are proverbial; but that beauty had gradually withered beneath the devastating influence of the slow fever so prevalent among dwellers by the ponds of Aiguemortes and the marshes of Camargue.†
Chpt 25-26proverbial = of a well-known metaphor or proverb
- "Shall we make a positive appointment for a particular day and hour?" inquired the count; "only let me warn you that I am proverbial for my punctilious exactitude in keeping my engagements."†
Chpt 37-38
- Unfortunately, there is a proverb which says that 'red is either altogether good or altogether bad.'†
Chpt 43-44proverb = a well-known, short saying that is thought to communicate wisdom
- The proverb was but too correct as regarded Benedetto, and even in his infancy he manifested the worst disposition.†
Chpt 43-44
- He reflected, smiled, and replied to me by a Sicilian proverb, which I believe is also a French proverb, 'My son, the world was not made in a day—but in seven.†
Chpt 51-52
- He reflected, smiled, and replied to me by a Sicilian proverb, which I believe is also a French proverb, 'My son, the world was not made in a day—but in seven.†
Chpt 51-52
- No one would have thought in looking at this old, weather-beaten, floral-decked tower (which might be likened to an elderly dame dressed up to receive her grandchildren at a birthday feast) that it would have been capable of telling strange things, if,—in addition to the menacing ears which the proverb says all walls are provided with,—it had also a voice.†
Chpt 61-62
- 'Never despair of anything,' says the proverb.†
Chpt 67-68
- When I perceived you, I was just asking myself whether I had not wished harm towards those poor Morcerfs, which would have justified the proverb of 'He who wishes misfortunes to happen to others experiences them himself.'†
Chpt 103-104
Definitions:
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(proverb as in: the well-known proverb) a short saying -- typically well-known and accepted by many as offering good adviceThe adjective, proverbial, may refer to a proverb or to anything that is well-known -- as in "It is a proverbial fish story exaggeration."
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(Proverbs as in: from The Book of Proverbs) a work of wisdom literature found in both the Old Testament of the Christian Bible and the Hebrew Bible