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But there never has been even a living true symbol which the dulness of those who will see the truth only in the symbol has not degraded into the very cockatrice-egg of sectarianism.
England's Antiphon MacDonald, George, 1824-1905 1868
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This, then, is what the Intendants were bid wait for at their posts: this is what the Court sat hatching, as its accursed cockatrice-egg; and would not stir, though provoked, till the brood were out!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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But how Lomenie felt to see his cockatrice-egg (so essential to the salvation of France) broken in this premature manner, let readers fancy!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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