Search in folklore: coal

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Coal that does not burn gives little heat.

Proverbs and old sayings Estonian

White meal is not got out of a coal-sack.

Proverbs and old sayings French

You never get clean flour from a coal sack.

Proverbs and old sayings French about contentment

Like will to like, as the devil said to the coal-burner.

Proverbs and old sayings German about devil

Under white ashes there is glowing coal.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian

A diamonds father is coal, yet it regards itself as upper-class.

Proverbs and old sayings

It's a cold coal to blow at.

Proverbs and old sayings

Let them that are cold blow at the coal.

Proverbs and old sayings

A malicious man is like a coal sack -- black on the outside and even blacker inside.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about magic, man

White flowers are not to be found in a coal sack.

Proverbs and old sayings about flowers