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“He was one of a lean body and visage, as if his eager soul, biting for anger at the clog of his body, desired to fret a passage through it.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of the Duke of Alva.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c6d8e0049140ba3431d57fe15fe3d26e6762a702e3a76c761a409b5d2b95d3d7
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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