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“The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling--a homely fancy, but I judged it to be sugar-candy; yet to my raised imagination, divested of its homelier qualities, it appeared a glorified candy.”
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- Source:
- My First Play.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ff5461809d84e771894a8a3787d7895d3bb11ca12480a3eecaf3d038a1037bcf
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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