“David Frost has risen without trace.”
David Frost (1939–2013) English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and daytime TV game show host
Kitty Muggeridge, The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3rd ed, 2007) 230:8
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““I’m very sorry,” the drone said, without a trace of contrition.”
Source: Culture series, The Player of Games (1988), Chapter 3 (p. 308).
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