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“When night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 500.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3312cf00fd5a43b08bd1fbd4fb57b040aeb576b725cdccada8f3cf0cabede3ce
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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