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“"Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.”
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- Source:
- Peveril of the Peak. Chap. xlii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7e99ca4b7b0698074ee37362012ff444728fd79d621aba3dccdfff294c9824f5
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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