proverbial

• The short interval between the deposal and death of princes is become proverbial, and though there may be some few examples on the other side as far as life is concerned, I doubt whether a single instance can be found where liberty has been granted to a deposed monarch. —  History of James the Second
• [64] The contempt with which the tailor is visited in English proverbial lore for working at a woman's occupation attaches in a precisely similar manner in India to the weaver. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
• Would it be quite Everything's fair in love and war,--proverbial, my boy. —  Pearl of Pearl Island
• This was, that on that very afternoon which saw the death of Dublin's greatest millionaire, Mr. Patrick Wethered, his solicitor, was murdered in Phoenix Park at five o'clock in the afternoon while actually walking to his own house from his visit to his client in Fitzwilliam Place Patrick Wethered was as well known as the proverbial town pump; his mysterious and tragic death filled all Dublin with dismay. —  The Old Man in the Corner
• His "Fabian Tactics" have become proverbial, and earned for him at the time the opprobrious epithet —  Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918

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