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"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.
"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.
Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- Douglas Jerrold
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- Approximate author period: c. 1830 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1803–1857)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 281 · printed citation: Douglas Jerrold · subject: Words
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