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

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With honour, as in war.

Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Serv.  Where dwellest thou?

Cor.  Under the canopy.

Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.

A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears,

And harsh in sound to thine.

Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.

Chaste as the icicle

That 's curdied by the frost from purest snow