“Carr was left with a ring, in the palm of his hand, a small gold circle, leading him nowhere.”
Michael Crichton book Scratch One
Scratch One, written under the pseudonym John Lange (1967)
“Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding ring!”
The Double Gallant, Act I, sc. ii (1707).
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