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“What gales are sold on Lapland’s shore!
How whistle rash bids tempests roar!”
Sir Walter Scott: Rokeby, ii. 11.
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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.