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Has anyone ever pinched into its pillulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?

Has anyone ever pinched into its pillulous smallness the cobweb of pre-matrimonial acquaintanceship?
George Eliot (identity unresolved)

In print by 1921 AD · modern

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George Eliot (identity unresolved)
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In print by 1921 AD · modern
In print by 1921: recorded in My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)

Page 131 · printed citation: George Eliot (Middlemarch). · compiler notes excluded

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