 | Annabella Crawford - 1878 - 414 頁
...we knew it. "Ben," I continued, "I was reading the Proverbs this morning, and came to that verse, ' A continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike ;' and I couldn't make out what it meant. Does it mean that both are so stupid and boring and wearisome? I... | |
 | Ellell (pseud.) - 1879 - 288 頁
...three go together, and accompany each other in the ins and outs of human life. Has it not been said that 'a continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike ' ? — that trifling, contention, occupying them from morning to night. The gospel bids us put away... | |
 | lady Amy Susan Baker - 1879 - 224 頁
...took out her notebook and wrote : ' Sunday, July i gth. ' Subject. — On Quarrelling. ' Lesson. — A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.' CHAPTER XXI. ON SICKNESS. ' I HAVE had a letter from Olive's mother, that makes me very anxious about... | |
 | William Greenleaf Eliot - 1880 - 204 頁
...a child to be amused; and there are others, in which sufficient proof is given of Solomon's words, that " a continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike." But still, after all exceptions have been made, in our homes is our chief strength. There is our best... | |
 | Edward John Lupson - 1881 - 278 頁
...with rags. |^e tfiat is geucn to mutfie sleape, sfiall go fontfj a raggefc toate. Prov. xxvii. 15 : A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. £J brafoU gnge fooman anfc tfie roofe of tfie fiouse broppgnge in a ragnge fcage, mag foell be tomparefc... | |
 | Henrietta Lee Palmer - 1881 - 462 頁
...domestic connection and to the same effect : " The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping ; " " A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike" (xx. 13, xxvii. 15). A cement of oil and clay was sometimes employed to render the roof impervious... | |
 | W. Tidmarsh - 1882 - 218 頁
...maid LOGICAL rilEDICATE. bark. be off.2ss bids thee call ? whero are going to ? LOGICAL SUBJECT. 5.* A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman 6. A man's pride 7.tTho doctor or his assistant 8. The lottery of my destiny 9. The nations 10. Thee&fere... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 頁
...i. Open rebuke is better than secret love. xxvii. 5. Faithful arc the wounds of a friend. xxvii. o. A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. xxvii. 15. Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. xxvii. 17. Though... | |
 | Norah (fict.name.) - 1884 - 120 頁
...with. If, in her intercourse with Mrs. Benson, she had too much experienced the truth of the proverb, that " a continual dropping in a very rainy day, and a contentious woman are alike," she also learned from it the useful lesson contained in the following lines : My enemy is oft my friend,... | |
 | Elijah Porter Barrows - 1884 - 200 頁
...this 'continual dropping' of water through the roof to which Solomon has reference when he says : 3 ' A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike ; ' and again : 4 ' The contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.' It is easy to understand how grass... | |
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A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike. 
