Hot sup, hot swallow. [ Proverb ]

One swallow makes no summer. [ Proverb ]

To put up with abuse (swallow snakes). [ French ]

To strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. [ Proverb ]

What though the mast be now blown overboard,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still. [ Shakespeare,Henry VI ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty, violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes
Or Cytherea's breath. [ William Shakespeare ]

Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim.
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes.
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,
That die unmarried ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength - a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
The crown-imperial; lilies of all kinds,
The flower-de-luce being one! [ William Shakespeare ]

To swallow an ox, and be choked with the tail. [ Proverb ]

The dog gnaws the bone because he cannot swallow it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If you swallow vice it will rise badly in your stomach. [ Proverb ]

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches. [ Massinger ]

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it? [ Shenstone ]

The snail slides up the tower at last, though the swallow mounts it sooner. [ Proverb ]

Women swallow at one mouthful the lie that flatters, and drink drop by drop a truth that is bitter. [ Diderot ]

Excitement is not enjoyment; in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow. [ Victor Hugo ]

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks. [ Thackeray ]

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. [ William Shakespeare ]