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The Devil's Dictionary, the original
Aesop's Fables
The Devil's Dictionary X
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Parenthesis
To put a man's nose into a parenthesis: to pull it, the fingers and thumb answering the hooks or crochets. A wooden parenthesis; the pillory. An iron parenthesis; a prison.
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