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A name applied to The Times newspaper, in allusion to an article by Captain Ed. Sterling, beginning thus:—
“We thundered forth the other day an article on the subject of social and political reform.”—The Times.
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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.