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 Cheese-Toaster (A).Chef d’Œuvre. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cheesewring (Lynton, Devon).
 
A mass of eight stones, towering to the height of thirty-two feet; so called because it looks like a gigantic cheese-press. This is probably a natural work, the effect of some convulsion. The Kilmarth Rocks, and part of Hugh Lloyd’s Pulpit, present somewhat similar piles of stone.   1
 


 Cheese-Toaster (A).Chef d’Œuvre. 

 
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