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He'd put up the feathers of a sucking-dove and set up a riot in a Quaker's meeting.
But the lion within is still there and, although it roars as gently as any sucking-dove, let us hope that it can heard again.
I prooted like a lion, I prooted mellifluously like a sucking-dove; but Modestine would be neither softened nor intimidated.