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Tenth Wave

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It is said that every tenth wave is the biggest. (See Wave.)

At length, tumbling from the Gallic coast, the victorious tenth wave shall ride, like the boar, over all the rest.”—Burke.

 

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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.

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Tennis Ball of Fortune
Tennyson (Alfred)
Tenpenny Nails
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Tent
Tent (Skidbladnir’s)
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Tenterhooks
Tenth Legion (The)
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