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Sunday 20 November 2005

Uses for Algerian wine: Sunday's quotation

'That old fool Craggs ... is as randy as a stoat. I threw a glass of Algerian wine over him once when he was trying to rape me.'

1971 Anthony Powell, Books Do Furnish a Room p. 79 Fontana ed.

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 24:23
Edited on: Sunday 20 November 2005 24:28
Categories: Quotations