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 Stiletto of the Storm (The).Still Sow. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Still.
 
Cornelius Tacitus is called Cornelius the Still in the Fardle of Facions, “still” being a translation of the Latin word tacitus.   1
        “Cornelius the Stylle in his firste book of his yerely exploietes called in Latine Ansales . .”—Ch. iii. s. 3 (1555).
 


 Stiletto of the Storm (The).Still Sow. 

 
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