/ · 1894 Brewer’s · D · Dominie Sampson
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A village schoolmaster and scholar, poor as a church mouse, and modest an a girl. He cites Latin like a porcus literaʹrum, and exclaims “Prodigious!” (Scott: Guy Mannering.) (See Stilling.)
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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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