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It is said that every tenth wave is the biggest. (See Wave.)
“At length, tumbling from the Gallic coast, the victorious tenth wave shall ride, like the boar, over all the rest.”—Burke.
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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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