...We were, indeed, as jolly as the proverbial sandboys during those few days in Mafeking before the war commenced... 
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
... Systematic search seems as foolish as in the case of the proverbial needle in the haystack...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Around the corner from the prison is a row of pawn and second-hand shops, and to these the mob took like the ducks to the proverbial mill-pond, and the devastation they wrought upon Mr...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett 「Mob Rule in New Orleans」
...Each of“The Seven” hated and feared and suspectedthe other six with far more thanthe ordinary and proverbial rich man’sjealous dislike of other rich men...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 2, September, 1905」
... "When I say that I expect you in Paris, I use only a proverbial phrase which you must not allow to mislead you as to my projects and plans...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...The disgusting smell of the common Pole-cat (Putorius foetidus)is well known, and has become proverbial...
Robert A. Sterndale 「Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon」
...Then, even if storms should drive their little prey to shelter andsnow should cover the fields, they need not worry nor starve seeing anabundance in their larder provided for the proverbial rainy day...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...He is a veritable trickster, compared with which the proverbial cunning fox must take a back seat...
Oliver Hartley 「Hunting Dogs」
...The presence of eggs or young ones makes the mosttimid creatures as bold as the proverbial lion...
Douglas Dewar 「Birds of the Indian Hills」
...The bear, for example, is proverbial for his conjugalfaithfulness...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...Though patient above most animals, the ass will sometimesturn like the proverbial worm, and instances are knownin which he has adopted the offensive with effect...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Japanese politeness is proverbial...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...It is proverbial that Catholics havegood music...
Atticus 「Our Churches and Chapels」
...The influence of thecreed they profess has made their uprightness and humanity proverbial...
Atticus 「Our Churches and Chapels」
...There wererumors about some unknown devil which lay hidden in the inklikesubstance, caught there like the proverbial fly in the amber...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930」
...Our last port in Australia wasAlbany, which was cleared on the last day of 1914—a beautiful night andclear day, with the sea as smooth as the proverbial glass...
Joseph Lievesley Beeston 「Five Months at Anzac」
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