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“As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- b26fe99218bf5b567b4beaaecb3f90f6d4e9de6ce0c6497ef5d47d0c9d7ac8ff
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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