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This is the only method which the rules of the house leave to a member for bringing up suddenly, and without notice, any business which is not on the order paper.
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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.