| E. Cobham Brewer 18101897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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An Englishman of fortune, good-humoured, and humane. He is a bachelor and somewhat eccentric, but sound common sense is a silver thread which is never lost. (Longfellow: Hyperion (a romance), 1839.) | 1 |
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