MARIE CORELLI
(1855 - 1924)
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A long sultry Syrian day was drawing near its close.
The heavy heat was almost insupportable, and a poisonous stench
oozed up from the damp earth-floors of the Jewish prison,
charging what little air there was with a deadly sense of
suffocation.
- Barabbas [Books (First Lines)]
Last Revised: 2007 January 1
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