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“Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Works. Book iv. Chap. xix.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- dfe42ce44def6aa48f9a73c2dfb97f8c530c840b80d86e16da4f6fcd13d67f46
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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