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Daniel Webster Struck Me Much Like A Steam-engine In Trousers.
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Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845)
-- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267
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