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Today already we feel it quite
Today already we feel it quite possible that the Germans will capture Paris, and that within a few days.
— from The Note-Book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone by Eric Fisher Wood

times and were familiar in Queen
They were articles of belief until comparatively recent times, and were familiar in Queen Elizabeth’s time, as we learn from Othello’s defence of himself (Act i. sc. 3):— “And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.”
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

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