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Translations proverbially adv (lit) express → in Form eines Sprichworts; (fig) → sprichwörtlich; the weather there is proverbially unreliable → das Wetter dort ist sprichwörtlich wechselhaft; prevention is proverbially better than cure → wie das Sprichwort sagt, Vorsicht ist besser als Nachsicht How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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For while those female whales are characteristically timid, the young males, or forty-barrel-bulls, as they call them, are by far the most pugnacious of all Leviathans, and proverbially the most dangerous to encounter; excepting those wondrous grey-headed, grizzled whales, sometimes met, and these will fight you like grim fiends exasperated by a penal gout. The two were inventors and proverbially poor business men, though they had amassed a fortune. Captain Bonneville was suitably affected by this mark of friendship; but his experience in what is proverbially called "Indian giving," made him aware that a parting pledge was necessary on his own part, to prove that his friendship was reciprocated. |
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