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 Bleeding of a Dead Body (The).Bleidablik [vast splendour]. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Blefus’cu.
 
An island severed from Lilliput by a channel 800 yards wide, inhabited by pigmies. Swift meant it for France. (Gulliver’s Travels.)   1
 


 Bleeding of a Dead Body (The).Bleidablik [vast splendour]. 

 
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