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apothegms
n. (plural of apothegm English)
Usage examples of "apothegms".
The overloaded appetite loathes even the honeycomb, and it is scarce a wonder that the knight, mortified and harassed with misfortunes and abasement, became something impatient of hearing his misery made, at every turn, the ground of proverbs and apothegms, however just and apposite.
If he must dispense his balm of Gilead in nostrums and apothegms of dubious taste to restore to health a generation of unfledged profligates let his practice consist better with the doctrines that now engross him.
Our foster-father, The reverend Hilding, with his silver-beard, Stood forth and spoke in words of wisdom full, Short apothegms, as keen as sharpened swords.