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 Furies of the Guillotine (The).Fusber’ta. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Furor.
 
Son of Occasion, an old hag, who was quite bald behind. Sir Guyon bound him “with a hundred iron chains and a hundred knots.” (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.)   1
 


 Furies of the Guillotine (The).Fusber’ta. 

 
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