/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Silver Lining
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The prospect of better days, the promise of happier times. The allusion is to Milton’s Comus, where the lady lost in the wood resolves to hope on, and sees a “sable cloud turn forth its silver lining to the night.”
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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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