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Benham's book of quotations, proverbs and household words : a collection of quotations from British and American authors, with many thousands of proverbs, phrases, maxims and sayings, from all sources, ancient and modern, including Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, and other languages / By Sir Gurney Benham : With full verbal and classified index
Bib ID 2057507
Format BookBook
Author
Benham, W. Gurney (William Gurney), 1859-1944
 
Edition Completely rev. and enl. ed. 
Description London and Melbourne : Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, [1936] 
vii, 1259, [20] p. ; 22cm. 
Notes

Blank pages for "Notes" ([20] at end).

Subjects Quotations.  |  Proverbs.

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