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Dictionary of English Proverbs

 

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NAME . A good name keeps its lustre in the dark.
NAME . Take away my good name, and take away my life.
NATURE . 'Tis the nature of the beast.
NECESSITY . Necessity knows no law.
NECESSITY . Make a virtue of necessity.
NECESSITY . Necessity is the mother of invention.
NEED . Need makes the old wife trot.
NEED . A friend in need is a friend indeed.
NEEDLE . To look for a needle in a pottle of hay.
NEEDY . 1141. NEIGHBOUR. Love thy neighbour, but pull not down thy hedge.
NEIGHBOUR . You must ask your neighbour if you shall live in peace.
NEIGHBOUR'S HOUSE . When thy neighbour's house is on fire, be careful of thine own.
NEIGHBOUR-QUART . Neighbour-quart is good quart.
NET . All is fish that comes to his net.
NEW . 1147. NEW BROOM. A new broom sweeps clean.
 
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Yaw-weed : n. A low, shrubby, rubiaceous plant (Morinda Royoc) growing along the seacoast of the West Indies. It has small, white, odorous flowers.
 
Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Thomas Preston, published originally in 1880 in London by Whittaker & Co
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