Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. ✨ Diction…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. ✨ Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 582, 1895.
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