 | 1848 - 570 ページ
...and forthwith she whipped away my snuff-box. There is an old saying, and a remarkably true one, that you may take a horse to the water but you can't make him drink, and the same stout aphorism holds good with regard to individuals and their wittles. It's no use trying... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 ページ
...TAG. — It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion. " Oppression causeth rebellion." " You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink." " If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion." SHAKS.... | |
 | 1870 - 790 ページ
...seat in the drawingroom : dressed — with elegance, certainly — though with not half the splendour he desired. "Ah !" said he, sighing; "you may take...her place there when the two lads entered — rather roughly clad and roughly behaved lads, anything but young lords, apparently, until they caught sight... | |
 | Dinah Maria Craik - 1870 - 380 ページ
...her seat in the drawing-room, dressed with elegance, certainly, though not with half the splendour he desired. " Ah ! " said he, sighing, "you may take...till three o'clock, Mrs. Scanlan insisted on going in to luncheon. She had scarcely taken her place there when the two lads entered— rather roughly... | |
 | Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - 1872 - 472 ページ
...Irish curate. Long before luncheon-time he insisted upon her taking her seat in the drawing - room — dressed with elegance, certainly, though with not...the level of your present position. I give you up !J' behaved lads, any thing but young lords apparently, until they caught sight of the lady at the... | |
 | Septimus Smet Thorburn - 1876 - 506 ページ
...thou goest not, I shall carry thee ; but if thou eatest not, what can I do to thee ? Similarly we say, "You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink." 253. If the thief turn not back, let his pal do so. Meaning that though concord is good, it is not... | |
 | 1877 - 832 ページ
...Regeneration. Woulditwere so ! unfortunately a very plebeian proverb comes to our mind as apposite here:—"You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink." Let Mr. Maitland digest and make as rational as possible what truths he may be fortunate enough to... | |
 | Matilda Leathes - 1877 - 232 ページ
...won't, surely ? It would be hard upon Nat and you ! " " Well, miss, I don't know how it 'll end. You see you may take a horse to the water, but you can't make it drink. I fear Dulcie 'll never be of much use in the house. If I set her to bake, she spoils the... | |
 | Hamilton Aïdé - 1880 - 330 ページ
...the door ; of relief, that is, from a continued strain and effort to accomplish the unattainable. " You may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink," she murmured to herself, with half a smile and half a sigh. Now she and Hubert would be alone together... | |
 | Hamilton Aïdé - 1892 - 408 ページ
...She was at some distance from the princess, and Madame Siebel, who sat near her, whispered, " You can take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink. He was dead sick of his wife five years ago, so she would have done better to set him free then." "In... | |
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you may take a horse to the water, but you can't make him drink. 
