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Quotation from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
“It was a small tube or trochar, with a lance passing down the inside; and Gabriel began to use it with a dexterity that would have graced a hospital-surgeon.”
Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. I, Ch. XXI (Ch. 21) (Project Gutenberg text (1874 first edition))
Gabriel, sent for after his dismissal, saves Bathsheba's sheep that have gorged on young clover.
Citation: "It was a small tube or trochar, with a lance passing down the inside; and Gabriel began to use it with a dexterity that would have graced a hospital-surgeon." — Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Vol. I, Ch. XXI (Ch. 21) (Project Gutenberg text (1874 first edition)). (id far-from-the-madding-crowd-q5)
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