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"Adage" in a Sentence (12 examples)
Dorcon, having thus been rescued from the jaws of the dogs and not, as the old adage has it, from those of the wolf, went home to nurse himself; while Daphnis and Chloe were occupied until nightfall in the difficult task of collecting their sheep and goats, which being terrified by the sight of the wolfskin and the barking of the dogs had dispersed in different directions.
The adage "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched" had never been so apt.
Doesn't the adage say: "Since the villagers love their donkey, we must hurry to bring him food!"
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There must always be two parties to a quarrel, says the old adage.
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He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure."
Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage.
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