stolen waters are sweet — With allusion to PROVERBS ix. 17 (AV) Stolen waters are sweet. Cf. c 1395 WYCLIF Bible Proverbs ix. 17 Stoln watris ben swettere. Less frequent than the preceding entry (stolen fruit is sweet). c 1548 Will of Devil (1863) 9 This saiyng of the… … Proverbs new dictionary
sweet — see with a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant by a hair little fish are sweet revenge is sweet stolen fruit is sweet stolen waters are sweet the nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat … Proverbs new dictionary
fruit — see when all fruit fails, welcome haws he that would eat the fruit must climb the tree September blow soft, till the fruit’s in the loft stolen fruit is sweet the tree is known by its fruit … Proverbs new dictionary
Australian Aboriginal sweet foods — Australian Aborigines had many ways to source sweet foods. The four main types of sweet foods gathered – apart from ripe fruit – were[1]: honey from ants and bees (sugarbag, see below) leaf scale (honeydew – lerps) tree sap flower nectar In some… … Wikipedia
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, Thematic Index — absence absence makes the heart grow fonder he who is absent is always in the wrong the best of friends must part blue are the hills that are far away distance lends enchantment to the view out of sight, out of mind … Proverbs new dictionary
steal — see one man may steal a horse, while another may not look over a hedge hang a thief when he’s young, and he’ll no’ steal when he’s old it’s a sin to steal a pin stolen fruit is sweet stolen waters are sweet … Proverbs new dictionary
attraction — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Drawing toward Nouns 1. (act of attracting) attraction, attractiveness; drawing to, pulling toward, adduction, magnetism, gravity, gravitation; affinity. See traction. 2. (something that attracts)… … English dictionary for students
apple — see an apple a day keeps the doctor away the apple never falls far from the tree the rotten apple injures its neighbour small choice in rotten apples stolen fruit is sweet … Proverbs new dictionary
List of works by Mary Martha Sherwood — The following is a list of the published works of Mary Martha Sherwood. Because it relies on M. Nancy Cutt s annotated bibliography of Sherwood s books in Mrs. Sherwood and her Books for Children , this list does not include her many periodical… … Wikipedia
Mary Martha Sherwood bibliography — Title page from the seventh edition of The History of Little Henry and his Bearer The following is a list of the published works of Mary Martha Sherwood. Because it relies on M. Nancy Cutt s annotated bibliography of Sherwood s books in Mrs.… … Wikipedia
