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Aaron . If Moses is not with Aaron, then Aaron makes himcalves. - Wenn Moses nicht bei Aaron ist, so macht AaronKälber {Frederick the Great.}
Aaron . In the hands of genius the driest stick becomes an Aaron's rod, and buds and blossoms out in poetry. {H. N. Hudson.}
Aaron . Never since Aaron's rod went out of practice, or even before it, was there such a wonder-working tool as a pen; greater than all recorded miracles have been performed by pens. {Carlyle.}
Abasement . Enoughno foreign foe could quell / Thy soul, till from itself it fell; / Yes, self-abasement paved the way / To villain bonds and despot sway. {Byron.}
Abbot . 'What must we suffer for the Church of God's sake!' exclaimed the Abbot when the roast fowl burnt his fingers. - O was müssen wir der Kirche Gottes halber leiden, rief der Abt, als ihm das gebratene Huhn die Finger versengte {German. Proverb.}
Abbot . As the abbot sings, the sacristan answers. - Como canta el abad, así responde el monacillo {Spanish. Proverb.}
Abiding . (You may) dig the deep foundations of a long-abiding {Dr. W. C. Smith.}
Abiding . Humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its objects in a genial and abiding light. {Whipple.}
Abiding . Life I leave, as I would leave an inn, rather than a home; nature having given it us more as a sort of hostelry to stop at, than as an abiding dwelling-place. {Cato in Cicero.}
Abiding . The abiding city and post at which we can live and die is still ahead of us, it would appear. {Carlyle.}
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