Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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In his cell so lone and cold.

Creeping where no life is seen,

A rare old plant is the ivy green.

Pickwick Papers. Chap. vi.

He 's tough, ma'am,—tough is J. B.; tough and devilish sly.

Dombey and Son. Chap. vii.

When found, make a note of.

Dombey and Son. Chap. xv.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.

Dombey and Son. Chap. xxiii.