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“Spreading himself like a green bay-tree.”
— Unattributed
Provenance
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- bba9a1b9bc5132fb9e8aa1eb932a65e6176d221f5113d4067aea425f3fec831f
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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