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The words bosse and bossu (hunch and hunchback) have various idiomatic and proverbial applications in France.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 64, NO. 397, NOVEMBER 1848VARIOUS
He was deservedly popular because scrupulously impartial, rigidly just and proverbial for humanity and kindness.
SAGES AND HEROES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONL. CARROLL JUDSON
The railway and vandalism, in the proverbial sense of the word, could not coexist.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, OCTOBER, 1877, VOL. XX. NO. 118VARIOUS
And so was fulfilled the proverbial command of Pericles, that Aegina ought not to remain the eyesore of Athens.
ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTON
This slight action on Poppy's part—this little lurking gleam of disappointment—were as the proverbial last straw to poor Jasmine.
THE PALACE BEAUTIFULL. T. MEADE
At the highest period of Grecian genius, the tragic and the comic poets introduced into their dramas the proverbial style.
CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE, VOL. 3 (OF 3)ISAAC DISRAELI
Then the Tucker luck, which was proverbial in that neighborhood, suddenly took an evil turn.
HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, MARCH 22, 1881VARIOUS
The opinion of the jury was no doubt correct, though they expressed it with proverbial caution.
POLICING THE PLAINSR.G. MACBETH
That Southern women are charming and "feminine" and lovable is proverbial.
ETIQUETTEEMILY POST
For the next few hours they are as busy as the proverbial bee.
CAMPINGALEXANDRA G. LOCKWINE

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