...While waiting for his ship, he, being a proverbial handy Yankee, had taken on this job... 
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...Negro eloquence is proverbial...
Booker T. Washington, et al. 「The Negro Problem」
... "When I say that I expect you in Paris, I use only a proverbial phrase which you must not allow to mislead you as to my projects and plans...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...In the Râmâyaṇam, the slowness of the ass hasalready become proverbial...
Angelo de Gubernatis 「Zoological Mythology, Volume I (of 2)」
...You remember that the blue jay has the thrifty habit of storing nutsfor the proverbial rainy day, and that the shrike hangs up his meat tocure on a thorn tree like a butcher...
Neltje Blanchan 「Birds Every Child Should Know」
...A dog’s memory is proverbial...
Major Gambier-Parry 「'Murphy'」
...So wary are they and difficultof approach, that a 'Wild Goose chase' is a proverbial expressionfor an unsuccessful enterprise...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...Their attachment to their young is proverbial...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The cunning of the fox is proverbial and ifonly one half of the stories told about him aretrue, there are quite sufficient to invest him with a degree ofartfulness which is apparently unique...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Japanese politeness is proverbial...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...Draco prepared his code in conformity to thespirit and the interest of the ruling class, and the severity ofhis laws has made his name proverbial...
Marcius Willson 「Mosaics of Grecian History」
...Our last port in Australia wasAlbany, which was cleared on the last day of 1914—a beautiful night andclear day, with the sea as smooth as the proverbial glass...
Joseph Lievesley Beeston 「Five Months at Anzac」
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