“Byzantians boast that on the clod
Where once the Sultan’s horse hath trod
Grows neither grass, nor shrub, nor tree.”
Swift: Pethox the Great.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.