| Some of the stories suitably blend the wisdom of the proverbs and the story line. |
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| Norwegians tend to integrate sayings and proverbs into daily conversations. |
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| The sayings are in the form of proverbs, parables, aphorisms, and exhortations. |
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| A number of proverbs are shared among Antiguans and Barbudans to reflect on aspects of daily life. |
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| The Akan have more than 3,600 proverbs, and many of the proverbs are represented in the visual arts. |
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| He is well known for weaving proverbs and traditional storytelling into the western form of the novel. |
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| There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine. |
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| Songs, stories, proverbs, and sayings have been passed down over thousands of years. |
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| It lacks narrative forms, is not reducible to conventional proverbs, and is driven by grievance against God and the world. |
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| Tibetans liberally sprinkle proverbs into daily conversations as a substitute for slang phrases. |
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| Riddles, proverbs, and sayings that describe proper behavior for both young and old Kenyans are still common. |
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| All the ethnic groups of Uganda have a rich oral tradition of tales, legends, stories, proverbs, and riddles. |
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| The Ewe divide proverbs into two groups of metaphorical use according to social status and age of their performers. |
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| The epic by Waris is interspersed with proverbs, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence. |
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| This experience reinforced Udechukwu's growing curiosity about Igbo life, evidenced in the collection of Igbo proverbs he made at the time. |
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| His sayings and proverbs, which embodied his philosophy of life, were handed down from generation to generation. |
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| Adinkra symbols usually represent popular proverbs, adages or traditional concepts in Ghanaian culture. |
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| Another striking similarity between Gullah and the languages of West Africa is the use of proverbs to teach and advise. |
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| Cameroonian folklore has many intriguing myths, legends, and proverbs from its varied cultural groups. |
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| Now whatever the intrinsic value of these proverbs, there's no taking away from the harm they cause. |
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| As he ponders the next option in his club career, it is just possible that a few proverbs from his native land are springing to mind once again. |
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| It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs. |
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| Riddles and proverbs can influence each other and sometimes a piece of advice in proverb form can be turned into a riddle, or vice versa. |
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| Romani uses many idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and sayings, often with metaphorical qualities. |
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| A rich variety of proverbs exist in the Sierra Leonean languages, and witty exchanges of proverbs are a conversational tradition. |
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| He learnt over 10,000 proverbs by memorising them as his father, S. Parasuraman, read out from various Tamil books. |
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| The Philosopher's Room is a heady mix of high art and popular culture, decorated with samplers embroidered with witty, mock-homespun proverbs. |
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| Sheikh Mo, who fancies himself a prophet of modernisation, likes to impress visitors with clever proverbs and heavy aphorisms. |
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| The subject areas in which he was most interested were fishing, folk medicine, proverbs and sayings. |
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| Although not enough of the text survives to be deciphered, proverbs, poetic verses and prayers were frequently used. |
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| The section on markers discusses rhyme and alliteration, oppositions, word repetition, paradox, metaphor, pithiness and aspects of the syntax of proverbs. |
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| The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession. |
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| Anyway, proverbs are pithy sayings passed down through the generations which are either observations on life or guides to behaviour. |
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| He was also adulated in his native land, where some of his verses became proverbs. |
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| The most prized possession of my childhood was a notebook of sayings and proverbs that I had compiled over the years. |
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| Some Rwandan adages and proverbs about Burundians point to their ungratefulness and advocate caution in dealing with them. |
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| Insult, vicious verbal abuses or slander. Somali oral literature is replete with poems, maxims and proverbs warning against such offences. |
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| The game focused on proverbs that express a moral or piece of folkloric advice. |
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| She hilariously explains Chinese proverbs when someone sneezes off-camera during interviews. |
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| Also, proverbs and inspirational messages are considered trite and corny in our super-smart society. |
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| There is no place in good writing for proverbs, saws, and tinkling aphorisms. |
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| Knowledge may be rivetted in the mind and made available for quick use by committing to memory some maxims, mottoes and proverbs. |
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| They immediately assume you are in the business of offering sage advice, usually in the form of unargued aphorisms and proverbs. |
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| A sparse collection of proverbs, folktales and moral codes combined with Buddhist principles dispense a few rules governing social behaviour. |
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| It seems possible that optical illusions may have had a role to play in the coining of several common proverbs regarding the use of vision as the sole source of information. |
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| There are also many words of wisdom, proverbs, anecdotes and aphorisms about chess on this page. |
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| The book was rich with the proverbs and parables Mr Achebe, too, remembered, all rendered in stately English. |
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| One of the hallmarks of apraxia is the relative preservation of automatic or over learned speech sequences such as greetings, leave-takings and proverbs. |
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| The brave proverbs with which we were brought up – the truth will out, cheats never prosper, virtue will triumph – turn out to be unfounded. |
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| Before the sentence was carried out, Khona recited as many of her verses as she could which were then passed on as the Khonar Bochan proverbs. |
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| A rich mix of humour, funny stories, proverbs and African songs, this show is a perfect fusion of Africa and Quebec. |
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| Read out the proverbs one at a time and ask for suggestions for the missing words. |
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| Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams. |
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| I'm not saying I was the first to stand up and point the finger at politicians, but a lot of the singers who'd done so before me had done it in a roundabout way, using proverbs. |
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| The list of proverbs or quotations will be given to the learners first. |
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| Thus, by way of proverbs and metaphorical expressions, orality reinforces the narrative of each episode, in that the ending reminds the viewers of a traditional story from which the listeners are supposed to draw lessons. |
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| These include collections of orature, such as proverbs, sayings, songs and stories, as well as recent autobiographic and fictional literary writing. |
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| There are verse translations of the Gloria in Excelsis, the Lord's Prayer, and the Apostles' Creed, as well as some hymns and proverbs. |
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| A true all-in-one reference work, Le Petit Larousse Illustré is the only dictionary to include both common and proper noun sections, separated by its famous 'pink pages' of quotations, proverbs and historic sayings. |
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| In the picture, Nevsky used a number of Russian proverbs, tying Nevsky firmly to Russian tradition. |
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| In literature the word gold and its derivatives appears more often than any other word, creating legends, singing metaphor and simile and providing innumerable parables, analogies and proverbs. |
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| Efforts are also being made to enhance the use of traditional and folk media that form an integral part of rural life, such as proverbs, poems, songs, dances, plays and stories. |
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| How many of the proverbs or sayings did people already know? |
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| There are many different symbols with distinct meanings, often linked with proverbs. |
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| Sometimes proverbs come in pairs, the first one providing the context, the second, the revision. |
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| Idioms are also not to be confused with proverbs, which are simple sayings that express a truth based on common sense or practical experience. |
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| Scattered through the book are a number of additional proverbs not recorded elsewhere. |
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| These elaborate creations, often amusing and earthy, sometimes coarse, remain somewhat mysterious, for although some are references to proverbs and folk legends, others belong to the world of alchemy and hermeticism. |
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| Sun-bronzed chalets decorated with coats of arms, proverbs, and flowerboxes sit perched on the gently undulating hills, savoring the aroma of fondue wafting from cozy inns. |
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| It would be worthless to embark on moral instruction through moral proverbs and folktales, as it is done in African societies, if our character or habits were inborn. |
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| Here, through the medium of stories and proverbs, and as the occasion presented, children were taught the virtues necessary for living together peaceably under one roof. |
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| In turn, these responsa were synthesized into rules, and maxims became the pithy expression, often expressed as proverbs, of these rules. |
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| The range of inscriptions included owners' names, coats of arms, bacchic or facetious references, Masonic and trade emblems, quotations from songs and proverbs, urban views, allegorical designs, and commemorative themes. |
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| We learn them from the stories, the proverbs, the folk tales and so on, and they keep in your mind those images that will be of use to you in later life. |
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| These include oral traditions such as tales, proverbs and jokes. |
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| Linguistics traced the Viking Age origins of rural idioms and proverbs. |
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| Jesus' method of teaching involved parables, metaphor, allegory, sayings, proverbs, and a small number of direct sermons such as the Sermon on the Mount. |
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| Steve Kquofi and Peace Amate from the University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, carried out a study on the significance of Akan proverbs. |
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| Today, the Sephardim have preserved the romances and the ancient melodies and songs of Spain and Portugal, as well as a large number of old Portuguese and Spanish proverbs. |
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