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brother of the Woodfall of Junius, and editor of the Morning Chronicle. Woodfall would attend a debate, and, without notes, report it accurately next morning. He was called Memory Woodfall. (1745–1803.) W. Radcliffe could do the same.

 

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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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Woodcock (A)
Wooden Horse (The)
Wooden Horse (To ride the)
Wooden Horse of Troy
Wooden Mare (The)
Wooden Spoon
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Wooden Wall
Wooden Wedge
Woodfall
Woodwardian Professor
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Woolwich Infant (The)
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