proverbially

How To Use proverbially In A Sentence

• Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. Some Private Views
• Here then, plain upon this apparent arbitrarily levised trifle, this petty provincial money-token, this poor bawbee, that is, this coin not only of the very humblest order, but proverbially sordid at that, we find clearly set down, long generations ago, the whole [Page: 99] four-fold analysis and synthesis of civic life we have been above labouring for. Civics: as Applied Sociology
• It is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct.
• Proverbially wily, coyotes are also a little demonic, and their dogginess only adds to the sense of lurking menace.
• It is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct.
• Indeed, the bad name that proverbially hangs the dog has already been given to the one under consideration, for bibliomania is older in the technology of this kind of nosology than dipsomania, which is now understood to be an almost established ground for seclusion, and deprivation of the management of one's own affairs. The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author
• the police are proverbially inquisitive
• the proverbially dour New England Puritan
• this proverbially bitter plant, wormwood
• She tripped over a marble fragment and hit another in the Agora of Ephesus, the proverbially wealthy Ionic city on the Cayster River in Western Turkey.