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Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Skull
 
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once.
        Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (Hamlet to Horatio.)
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Remove yon skull from out the scatter’d heaps:
Is that a temple where a God may dwell?
Why, even the worm at last disdains her shatter’d cell!
        Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza 5.
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