“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)
“How pure the joy, when first my hands unfold
The small, rare volume, black with tarnished gold!”
Illustrations of Sterne, Bibliomania, line 137, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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