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“So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book x. Line 279.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 902be910976677483bca855dea9c4a701334cb7c4f9737a2d3eed39ca0280c2e
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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