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War.
“Fresh troops had each year to be sent off to glut the maw of the ‘Glory Demon.ʹ”—C. Thomson: Autobiography, 32.
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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.