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crotchet

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crotchet
1. Music a note having the time value of a quarter of a semibreve
2. Zoology a small notched or hooked process, as in an insect


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They have always a crotchet going, till the old man with the scythe reaps and garners them away for troublesome old boys as they are.
Some fatalities come in certain shapes, and some in others -- but this of which I speak has come in the shape of a crotchet.
She will not remain orbed in a thought, but rushes into persons; and when each person, inflamed to a fury of personality, would conquer all things to his poor crotchet, she raises up against him another person, and by many persons incarnates again a sort of whole.
 
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