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Muslin curtains, fairly white, carefully screened this lumber-room — a _capharnaum_, as the
The Purse 2007
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Muslin curtains, fairly white, carefully screened this lumber-room — a _capharnaum_, as the
The Purse 2007
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The _cabajoutis_ is to Parisian architecture what the _capharnaum_ is to the apartment, -- a poke-hole, where the most heterogeneous articles are flung pell-mell.
Ferragus Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The _cabajoutis_ is to Parisian architecture what the _capharnaum_ is to the apartment, -- a poke-hole, where the most heterogeneous articles are flung pell-mell.
The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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_capharnaum_, as the French call such a domestic laboratory,
The Purse Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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A chaotic jumble, a shambles. Also capharnaüm. From the biblical town of Capernaum.
March 17, 2021