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polyphloesboean

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  • -- Two men are walking by the polyphloesboean ocean, one of them having a small tin cup with which he can scoop up a gill of sea-water when he will, and the other nothing but his hands, which will hardly hold water at all,

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • -- Two men are walking by the polyphloesboean ocean, one of them having a small tin cup with which he can scoop up a gill of sea-water when he will, and the other nothing but his hands, which will hardly hold water at all, -- and you call the tin cup a miraculous possession!

    Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

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  • Cf. "polyphloisboian."

    June 24, 2011