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“As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.”
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 86dfb7b9fa1bd4eb694bbeaa38d3cd461c73b9e9650febfcd28cf5aa6a19dc70
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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