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

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Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 620.

Gorgons and Hydras and Chimæras dire.

Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 628.

The other shape,

If shape it might be call'd that shape had none

Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;

Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd,

For each seem'd either,—black it stood as night,

Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell,