“A dark horse, which had never been thought of, and which the careless St. James had never even observed in the list, rushed past the grandstand in sweeping triumph.”

—  Benjamin Disraeli

Book I, Chapter 5.
Books, Coningsby (1844), The Young Duke (1831)

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