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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Berkley

(Mr. ). An Englishman of fortune, good-humoured, and humane. He is a bachelor and somewhat eccentric, but sound common sense is a silver thread which is never lost. (Longfellow: Hyperion (a romance), 1839.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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