Author: S. W. Fallon
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120606630
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Author: S. W. Fallon
Publisher:
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Category : Hindustani language
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: S. W. Fallon
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Harold V. Cordry
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476607354
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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All cultures have proverbs that capsulize subjects simply and effectively. Many of these are cross-cultural. For example, according to a Danish proverb, "The greater the fear, the nearer the danger," while a Latin proverb says, "The less there is of fear, the less there is danger." This work includes over 20,000 proverbs from more than 120 languages, nationalities and ethnic groups. The proverbs are arranged under 1,300 headings (e.g., accidents, divided loyalty, marriage, prosperity, shame), and each includes the nationality, group or language in which it originated. Comprehensive keyword and subject indexes allow access to the material in multiple ways.

Author: Herman Jensen
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Proverbs, Tamil
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: S. W. Fallon
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Author: Sir Herbert Hope Risley
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropometry
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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Author: Dwight Edwards Marvin
Publisher:
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Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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Author: George B. Bryan
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820479477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain's Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Eggleston, Hamlin Garland, Graham Greene, Thomas C. Haliburton, Bret Harte, Aldous Huxley, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, George Orwell, Eden Phillpotts, John B. Priestley, Carl Sandburg, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jesse Stuart, Oscar Wilde, and more. Many lesser-known dramatists, songwriters, and novelists are included as well, making the contextualized texts to a considerable degree representative of the proverbial language of the past two centuries. While the collection contains a proverbial treasure trove for paremiographers and paremiologists alike, it also presents general readers interested in folkloric, linguistic, cultural, and historical phenomena with an accessible and enjoyable selection of proverbs and proverbial phrases.

Author: Dwight Edwards Marvin
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Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 454

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