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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—D

Doubting Castle

The castle of the giant Despair, in which Christian and Hopeful were incarcerated, but from which they escaped by means of the key called “Promise.” (Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress.)

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