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Meanings of old couplet in English

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Usage of old couplet in English
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Never was more forcibly exemplified the truth of the old couplet:
Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
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I could not forbear reciting somewhat derisively the old couplet-
Miriam Monfort / A Novel
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All which is well said in the old couplet-
Life and Habit
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The old couplet sang itself in his brain:
A Little Girl in Old Salem
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There was much comfort in the old couplet:-
Humanly Speaking
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There is truth in the old couplet, too:-
Locusts and Wild Honey
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Mr. Chripp laughed, and paraphrased an old couplet.
Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
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The Englishman, pleased with my reasoning, wrote down the following old couplet, and gave it to me to read:
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
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And, as the old couplet tells, they say too that the spirit of Gower's Well is not yet appeased.
Legend Land, Vol. 1 / Being a Collection of Some of the Old Tale...
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As he handed to the conductor his mileage book, he did not say to him, lightly transposing the old couplet-
From Whose Bourne
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The old couplet which as a child she had been used to quote darted back into her mind with a torturing pang.
A College Girl
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One of the old couplets, of which our forefathers were so fond, runs:
Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
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"You know, of course, the old couplet-'Whenthe wine flows the-'
Peter: A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero
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I name it only because it embodies these old couplets, which still lead a vagabond life up and down the pages of country-almanacs:-
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 / A Magazine ...
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Old couplet across language varieties
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