例文・使い方で印象づける「proverb」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...’ Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...ButI find the proverb true, that 'the wheel of fortune turns swifterthan a mill-wheel,' and they who were yesterday at the top areto-day at the bottom...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
..." "Not so, neither, I fancy," quoth Sancho; "but Iguess he stuck to the proverb, To give and keep what is fit, requiresa share of wit...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
... A Spanish proverb...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...But I knew in my heart it wasone of the "true words spoken in jest" that the proverb tells of...
Grant Allen 「An African Millionaire」
..."Like people like prince"is a proverb which I think I have heard...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...That is the origin of the proverb,—and it is a trueone,—‘Another’s wife is a white swan, and ours is bitterwormwood...
Leo Tolstoy 「The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories」
...The elephant is believed by the Singhalese to express hisuneasiness by his voice, on the approach of rain; and theTamils have a proverb...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...The Arabs have a proverb, "As cowardly as a hyæna...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...If the cow-maid is to takecare of her cow and guard her well, she will be able tospin but little; whence the German proverb is rightwhen it says that if the cow-maid must spin there willbe little yarn...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...The horse of Ciolle, in a Tuscan proverb, also feedsupon wind alone...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
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