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“He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Conversation. Line 121.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 12a793d97c5e665fe6340c561534dbbb100f99a5d4b198522aa2b89bba673d05
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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