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“Plain as a pike-staff.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Gil Blas. Book xii. Chap. viii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 63460368f406727179fb2e563eb8f8b04cc859e52ee558267f1c40a150159a77
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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