Items matching rivers taken from Dictionary of Proverbs (1917)
rivers: big brooks; flowing water.
one matching result.
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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![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]")
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