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Search phrase: colossus

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Henry IV Part 1	1H4 V.i.123	Nothing but a Colossus can do thee that	Nothing but a Colossus can do thee that
Julius Caesar	JC I.ii.135	Like a Colossus, and we petty men	Like a Colossus, and we petty men

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Glossary

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Colossus	huge bronze statue of Apollo, which bestrode the harbour entrance to the port of Rhodes
colossus-wise	like a colossus, with legs astride

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colossus, like a

colossus-wise

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World [outside Britain], places and peoples

Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
COLOSSUS	BASIC	colossus n, colossus-wise adv

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