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world and
there abide... The
whirling dance or Sufi
whirling that is
proverbially ****ociated with
dervishes is best
known in the West by the practices...
-
phase of the moon. In 1552,
Richard Huloet wrote: Hony mone, a term
proverbially applied to such as be
newly married,
which will not fall out at the first...
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tears shed by
Pamphilus at the
funeral of Chrysis, it came to be used
proverbially in the
works of
later authors, such as
Horace (Epistulae 1.XIX:41). hinc...
- context. For example, "lead foot" may
describe a fast driver; lead is
proverbially heavy, and a foot
exerting more
pressure on the
accelerator causes a...
-
unprecedented act,
given that
until that
moment Italian politicians were
proverbially serious and formal.
Benigni was
censored again in the 1980s for calling...
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further children. Also, she
successfully set
about restoring order in
proverbially restless Aquitaine, and
continued in her
royal duties as
Angevin queen...
- early-modern period.
William Shakespeare, for instance,
cites her as a
proverbially bad wife in The
Taming of the Shrew.
During the Enlightenment, some followed...
- to the ground. "S****r's compensation" or "S****r's Reward" is used
proverbially in
Persian and
Arabic to
refer to a
situation where on does good work...
- Düsseldorf's
entertainment district with
hundreds of pubs and restaurants, and
proverbially known by
Germans as "the
longest bar in the world". Düsseldorf-Hafen;...
- in 1907) and
promised to
transform valueless into
valuable materials.
Proverbially, you
could not make a silk
purse of a sow's ear—until the US firm Arthur...
