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“Beat all your feathers as flat down as pancakes.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Roaring Girl. Act i. Sc. 1.
- Type:
- play
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8c5302d0c32a0ce5cc23c318e9a9ad5714bc6dd0b4d8b888fcb4a15617ce4c2b
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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