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I have a barn with white lambs. The mouth with teeth

Riddles

A white tooth has a bloody root.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

Generosity is white and pure like milk.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about generosity, purity

No matter how black a cow is the milk is always white.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about magic

The white ant is small but it creates the great anthill.

Proverbs and old sayings West African

As long as the white man stutters, the interpreters have a lot of work.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about work, man

Black fowl can lay white eggs.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about magic, americans

Dirt is dirtiest upon clean white linen.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about americans

Don't fire until you see the white of his eye.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about fire, fire brigade, americans, contentment

Like a fence, character cannot be strengthened by whitewash.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about character, americans

The white penny will become useful in your dark days.

Proverbs and old sayings about dark, day

Literal meaning: Save your white penny for your black day.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic, day

You are a white mout fowl.

Proverbs and old sayings about contentment

Kamau who is white becomes black.

Proverbs and old sayings about magic

No married woman will have her white hair shaved at her mother's.

Proverbs and old sayings about mother, woman

Just one by one white hairs have come, and thus have they grown.

Proverbs and old sayings Bantu

Is the white camel made of fat?

Proverbs and old sayings Berber

A black plum is as sweet as a white.

Proverbs and old sayings British about magic

A whitewashed crow soon shows black again.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about magic