Items matching people taken from Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)
people: an image depicting or containing humans, whether individual or groups, and whether foreground or background.
Synonyms: crowds, pedestrians, onlookers, spectaters
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Page images and pictures from Nathan Bailey’s 1721 Dictionary of Proverbs.
This is the Table of contents; there is also a transcription with the definitions and explanations. I used a 1917 edition from Yale University and the Oxford University Press, which is now out of copyright.
I also have Nathan Bailey’s Canting Dictionary online.
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![After sweet Meat comes sour Sauce; [woodcut of stout man, seated, with bandaged foot]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp64-65.jpg "After sweet Meat comes sour Sauce; [woodcut of stout man, seated, with bandaged foot]")
![One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp54-55.jpg "One Man had better steal a Horse than another look over the Hedge; [woodcut: highayman with hat and cape leads a horse]")
![Sue a Beggar and catch a Louse; Many Hands make Light Work; [woodcut: well-dressed man scratches his head standing near a beggar with outstretched hat]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp30-31.jpg "Sue a Beggar and catch a Louse; Many Hands make Light Work; [woodcut: well-dressed man scratches his head standing near a beggar with outstretched hat]")
![All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp22-23.jpg "All goes down Gutter-lane; As Wise as a Man of Gotham; As good as George of Green; [woodcut: stout man drinks from mug, holds saussage with a fork]")
![Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]](http://www.fromoldbooks.org/proverbs/tn/pp38-39.jpg "Need makes the old Wife trot; [woodcut: barefoot old woman hitches up skirts to cross a stream]")