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... says that he " parted even just between twelve and one , even at the turning of the tide , " which is obviously an allusion to the popular notion . Dickens's David Copperfield says of the passing of Barkis , " it being low water , he ...
... says that he " parted even just between twelve and one , even at the turning of the tide , " which is obviously an allusion to the popular notion . Dickens's David Copperfield says of the passing of Barkis , " it being low water , he ...
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... says I Kings 20:11 , " boast himself as he that putteth it off . " In the days when the King James version of the Bible was trans- lated and when Shakespeare wrote , the phrase meant to die on the battlefield or while fighting . When ...
... says I Kings 20:11 , " boast himself as he that putteth it off . " In the days when the King James version of the Bible was trans- lated and when Shakespeare wrote , the phrase meant to die on the battlefield or while fighting . When ...
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... say that it is twice as many degrees above or below zero or the freezing point on one day as it is on another , just as ... says to the other lords con- cerning Cardinal Woolsey : " If we live thus tamely , to be thus jaded by a piece of ...
... say that it is twice as many degrees above or below zero or the freezing point on one day as it is on another , just as ... says to the other lords con- cerning Cardinal Woolsey : " If we live thus tamely , to be thus jaded by a piece of ...
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