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“There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6c4f54f9ad713651dfe5e14dd5af3e75bd5feac03ba4baffac10dc5c280da4b7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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