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Example sentences for: shetland

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Such native shrewdness means excellent judgment of character and more Shetland proverbs echo this.
It will be interesting to see if any new proverbs will be invented in Shetland concerning North Sea oil and the welcome novelty of its young people now able to make a living at home.
These give an arresting piquancy to the many proverbs still surviving in Shetland.
A new awareness of rich history and tradition of belonging to The Old Rock plus caution concerning any threat to the native environment now provide much food for thought and material for pungent new Shetland proverbs.
The sore feelings of a harassed parent bringing up mischievous boys might be soothed by the Shetland motto Mony a pellit [troublesome] foal haes made a good horse or Dere broken pots in aa lands , as a reminder that the problem is universal.