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The possession of another coveted by one able to possess himself of it. (1 Kings xxi. 1–10.)
“The little Manor House property had always been a Naboth’s vineyard to his father.”—Good Words, 1887.
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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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