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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—M

Madge Wildfire

The nickname of Margaret Murdochson, a beautiful but giddy girl, whose brain was crazed by seduction and the murder of her infant. (Sir Walter Scott: Heart of Midlothian.)

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