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“Hard as a piece of the nether millstone.”
— Unattributed
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- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 01ab8bf18a0c23cfc29d6ddbeafe62d2562fd21505e87f89990921f39ff33b6f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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