Soot-ball

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of sootball. alt-of, alternative

    "What was true at first becomes a vile untruth before it has run its race; and the person who started the snow-ball, or, rather, the soot-ball, to rolling is responsible, in no small measure, for what it accumulates before it has reached the bottom of the hill."

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"What was true at first becomes a vile untruth before it has run its race; and the person who started the snow-ball, or, rather, the soot-ball, to rolling is responsible, in no small measure, for what it accumulates before it has reached the bottom of the hill."

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