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Children of a parent. It is a Scripture term: “Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine … thy children like olive plants round about thy table” (Psalm cxxviii. 3).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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