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Daggers . Far greater numbers have been lost by hopes / Than all the magazines of daggers, ropes, / And other ammunitions of despair, / Were ever able to despatch by fear. {Butler.}
Dainties . Dainties unbought, , home produce. - Dapes inemptæ {i.e.}
Dainties . He equalled the wealth of kings in contentment of mind; and at night returning home, would load his board with unbought dainties. - Regum æquabat opes animis; seraque revertens / Nocte domum, dapibus mensas onerabat inemptis {Virg., of the husbandman.}
Daisy . Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thineno distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom. {Burns.}
Daisy . Small service is true service while it lasts. / Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: / The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, / Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. {Wordsworth, to a child.}
Daisy's . Even thou who mourn'st the daisy's fate, / That fate is thineno distant date; / Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate / Full on thy bloom, / Till crush'd beneath the farrow's weight / Shall be thy doom. {Burns.}
Daisy's . Small service is true service while it lasts. / Of humblest friends, bright creature! scorn not one: / The daisy, by the shadow that it casts, / Protects the lingering dewdrop from the sun. {Wordsworth, to a child.}
Dame . A tocherless dame sits lang at hame. {Scotch. Proverb.}
Dame . My dame fed her hens on thanks, but they laid no eggs. {Proverb.}
Dame . None is so wasteful as the scraping dame; / She loseth three for oneher soul, rest, fame. {George Herbert.}
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