Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.

She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.

Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.

She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.[292:2]

Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.

If it had been a bear it would have bit you.

Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.