Lexicographical Neighbors of Proverbed
Literary usage of Proverbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... right for that wicked dcde, "* which these wise clerkes that ben dede «aw ever
this proverbed to us young, «at the first vertue is to kepe the toung. ..."
2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1848)
"A torch for me: let wantons, light of heart, Tickle the senseless rushes with
their heels; For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase: I'll be a ..."