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“Like feather bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- 0f522dfdffbe44650ebf7b2fd2bd7645fd5dd74c528c57b8d7e424b83043488f
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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