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Iṇaip paḻamoḻikaḷ = Parallel proverbs : Tamiḻum Āṅkilamum, Āṅkilamum Tamiḻum, akaravaricaiyil / tokuppāciriyar, Ti. Celvak Kēcavarāya mutaliyār; aṇīnturai, Cālai Iḷantiraiyaṉ.
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- Ceṉṉai : Tirunelvēli Teṉṉintiya Caivacittānta Nūṟpatippuk Kaḻakam, 1974.
- 1974
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OLB 88-871 Offsite The Oxford dictionary of English proverbs. 3rd ed.; revised by F. P. Wilson with an introduction by Joanna Wilson.
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- Oxford, Clarendon P., 1970.
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR PN6421 .O9 1970 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sayings of Trinidad and Tobago, old and new. Compiled and published by C. R. Ottley.
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- [Diego Martin? Trinidad] 1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 77-3760 no. 1-3 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A country compendium / Godfrey Baseley ; text ill. by Alex Jardine.
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- London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977.
- 1977
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 78-675 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proverbs in action / by Peter Curran; illustrations by Roy Gale.
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- Hove, Eng. : Editype, 1972.
- 1972
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 79-7228 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Country talk / by Dick Syatt. 1st ed.
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- Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel Press, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 80-3001 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Shakespeare's proverbial language : an index / R.W. Dent.
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1981.
- 1891
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 81-2626 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs / edited by J.A. Simpson.
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- Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
- 1982
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 93-4577 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Hamdrakan aṛatsani ew asatsʻuatstkʻ; hayerēn-anglierēn, anglierēn-hayerēn [kazmetsʻ] Mesrop K. Guyumchian. A dictionary of proverbs & quotations; Armenian-English, English-Armenian, by M. G. Kouyoumdjian.
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- Gahirē, 1967.
- 1967
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *ONP 82-1483 Offsite Investigations of proverbs, proverbial expressions, quotations and clichés : a bibliography of explanatory essays which have appeared in Notes and queries (1849-1983) / Wolfgang Mieder.
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- Bern ; New York : P. Lang, c1984.
- 1984
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 87-3306 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proverbial language in English drama exclusive of Shakespeare, 1495-1616 : an index / R.W. Dent.
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1984.
- 1984
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NCOM 13-7058 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.
How proverbs mean : semantic studies in English proverbs / by Neal R. Norrick.
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- Berlin ; New York : Mouton, c1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 85-4550 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proverbs / with pictures by Charles H. Bennett.
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- London : Chapman and Hall, 1859.
- 1859
- 3 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Arents SA 1187a (Bennett) Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Arents SA 1187b (Bennett) Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Proverbs with pictures) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Son of a duck is a floater / [compiled by] Primrose Arnander, Ashkhain Skipwith ; with illustrations by Kathryn Lamb.
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- London : Stacey International, c1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OF 89-1797 Offsite "Even monkeys fall from trees" and other Japanese proverbs = [Nihon no kotowaza] / compiled and translated by David Galef ; illustrations by Jun Hashimoto ; with a foreword by Edward G. Seidensticker.
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- Rutland, Vt. : C.E. Tuttle Co., c1987.
- 1987
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OSG 00-6403 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Oxford dictionary of English proverbs / compiled by William George Smith ; with an introd. by Janet E. Heseltine.
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- Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1948.
- 1948
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 89-407 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Modern proverbs and proverbial sayings / Bartlett Jere Whiting.
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR PN6403 .W48 1989 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
English proverbs and proverbial phrases; a historical dictionary, by G. L. Apperson.
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- London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton [1929]
- 1929
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Apperson, G. English proverbs) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 90-3371 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Aṅgrezī-Hindī muhāvarā lokokti kośa = A dictionary of English-Hindi idioms, proverbs and proverbial sayings / [sampādaka] Bholānātha Tivārī, Dvijendra Nātha.
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- Delhi : Prabhat Prakashan, 1988.
- 1988
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OKTK 89-17586 Offsite Country sayings / Fred Archer.
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- Wolfeboro Falls, NH : A. Sutton Pub., 1991, c1990.
- 1991-1990
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFF 91-1806 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The Concise Oxford dictionary of proverbs / [compiled by] John Simpson with the assistance of Jennifer Speake.
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Pub. Cat. PN6421 .C64 1992 Schwarzman Building - Public Catalog Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
al-Jumān fī al-amthāl : dirāsah tārīkhīyah muqāranah / Jumānah Ṭāhā.
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- [S.l.] : Ṭ. Jumānah, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OF 92-10502 Offsite Proverbi italiani e inglesi : equivalenti e sinonimi dei più comuni proverbi come espressi nelle due lingue / Oscar Corona.
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- Poggibonsi : Lalli, [1985]
- 1985
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 92-17365 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Legends, true stories and old sayings from Trinidad and Tobago / collected and told by C.R. Ottley.
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- [s.l. : s.n.], 1962
- 1962
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text Sc 398.21-O (Ottley, C. Legends) Schomburg Center - Research & Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.
Black sheep, red herrings, and blue murder : the proverbial Agatha Christie / George B. Bryan.
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- Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFD 93-10556 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Han-Yŏng soktam sajŏn / Chŏng Chong-hwa pʻyŏnchŏ.
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- Sŏul Tʻŭkpyŏlsi : Tʻamgudang, 1991.
- 1991
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OT 94-6855 Offsite Zarb al-ma̲salhā : Inglīsī bih Fārsī va Fārsī bih Inglīsī / taʼlīf-i Klīfūrd Vītīng, Rūnāld Rīdūt ; tarjamah-i Ḥamīd Rizā Balūch, Masʻūd Mīrzāʼī.
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- Tihrān : Nashr-i Pārsā, 1371 [1992]
- 1992
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *OMP 94-8268 Offsite The proverbial Winston S. Churchill : an index to proverbs in the works of Sir Winston Churchill / compiled by Wolfgang Mieder and George B. Bryan.
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- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JFE 95-9693 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
The comparative Russian-English dictionary of Russian proverbs & sayings : with 5543 entries : 1900 most important proverbs highlighted : English proverb index / Peter Mertvago.
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- New York, NY : Hippocrene Books, c1995.
- 1995
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QCK 95-3255 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Random House dictionary of popular proverbs & sayings / Gregory Titelman.
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- New York : Random House, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-RMRR PN6405 .T57 1996 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Slovarʹ upotrebitelʹnykh angliĭskikh poslovi︠t︡s : 326 stateĭ / [avtory M.V. Bukovska︠i︡a ... et al.].
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- Moskva : "Russkiĭ ︠i︡azyk", 1985.
- 1985
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QCK 87-1069 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russian-English dictionary of Russian sayings and proverbs / compiled by C.A. Krylov.
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- [New York : s.n.], c1973.
- 1973
- 1 Item
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A fashionable caricature; or The proverbs of our ancestors, prophetically descriptive of the most distinguished personages in the present age of the court, the senate, the army, the navy, the bar, the city and the theatres.
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- [London] Printed for W. Thiselton [1792]
- 1792
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text B-10 1102 Offsite A book of English proverbs, with origins and explanations.
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- [London] Longmans [1959]
- 1959
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text C-11 2611 Offsite Proverbs, epigrams, and miscellanies. Edited by John S. Farmer.
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- New York, Barnes & Noble, 1966.
- 1966
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text C-13 1243 Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
English proverbs and expressions with Afrikaans equivalents, compiled by N. G. Sabbagha [and] M. S. B. Kritzinger.
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- Pretoria, Van Schaik (J. L.), 1968.
- 1968
- 1 Item
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Beowulf and the medieval proverb tradition / Susan E. Deskis.
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- Tempe, AZ : Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
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A dictionary of proverbs and proverbial phrases from books published by Indiana authors before 1890.
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- Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1961.
- 1961
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text D-13 1862 Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Dicionário de coloquialismos anglo-americanos; provérbios, idiotismos e frases feitas. A dictionary of Anglo-American colloquialisms: proverbs, idioms and clichés. [Por] R. Magalhães Júnior.
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- Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira [1964]
- 1964
- 1 Item
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Proverbs and proverbial phrases of Illinois / Edited by Frances M. Barbour.
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [1965]
- 1965
- 1 Item
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Modern legends / by Philomena Daly.
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- Ilfracombe, N. Devon : A.H. Stockwell, [1954]
- 1954
- 1 Item
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Cheshire proverbs and other sayings and rhymes connected with the city and county palatine of Chester. Collected and annotated by Joseph C. Bridge.
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- Chester, Phillipson and Golder; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd., 1917.
- 1917
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Bridge, J. C. Cheshire proverbs and other sayings and rhymes) Offsite A dictionary of the proverbs and proverbial phrases of the English language, relating to the sea and such associated subjects as fish, fishing ... With notes, explanatory, historic, and etymologic ... By Frank Cowan ...
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- Greenesburgh, Pa., The Oliver Publishing House, 1894.
- 1894
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Cowan, F. Dictionary of the proverbs and proverbial phrases of the English language) Offsite English proverbs with moral reflexions; <in imitation of Sir Roger L'Estrange's Æsop.> Familiarly accommodated to the humour and manners of the present age.
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- London, Printed by H. Meere, for G. Sawbridge, 1709.
- 1709
- 1 Item
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English proverbs and proverbial phrases, collected from the most authentic sources, alphabetically arranged, and annotated, by W. Carew Hazlitt.
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- London, J. R. Smith, 1869.
- 1869
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Hazlitt, W. C. English proverbs and proverbial phrases) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Hazlitt, W. C. English proverbs and proverbial phrases) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Proverbs and family mottoes with the names of the families by whom they are adopted.
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- London, G. Routledge, 1891.
- 1891
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Mair, J. A. Proverbs and family mottoes) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A compleat collection of English proverbs; : also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. : The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explications. / By the late Reverend and learned J. Ray ... ; To which is added, (written by the same author) A collection of Englich words not generally used ... ; With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England.
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- London: : Printed by J. Hughs ... for J. Torbuck ... O. Payne ... and T. Woodman ..., 1737.
- 1737
- 2 Items
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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433082291794Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Ray, J. Compleat collection of English proverbs. 1737 (J. Hughes [etc.])) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Ray, J. Compleat collection of English proverbs. 1737 (J. Hughes [etc.])) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explications. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are found in England.
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- London, H. Slater, 1737.
- 1742
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Ray, J. Compleat collection of English proverbs. 1737 (H. Slater)) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
A compleat collection of English proverbs; also the most celebrated proverbs of the Scotch, Italian, French, Spanish, and other languages. The whole methodically digested and illustrated with annotations, and proper explanations. By the late Rev. and learned J. Ray ... To which is added, (written by the same author) A collection of English words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues; the one, of such as are proper to the northern, the other, to the southern counties. With An account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are found in England.
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- London, Printed for W. Otridge, S. Bladon [etc.] 1768.
- 1768
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text NAX (Ray, J. Compleat collection of English proverbs. 1768) Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Early English proverbs : chiefly of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with illustrative quotations / collected by Walter W. Skeat.
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- Oxford : Clarendon Press 1910
- 1910
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