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“There was a laughing devil in his sneer.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 9.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 793adbe1c1db5fd0a278f741c9be0f2422a5cfc57ef8c788b26455ee636a5370
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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