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  • Vaguely she supposed she had hoped that the flowing blood would wash the wound clean ...did that really happen, or was it just an old wives' tale?†  (source)
  • Five weeks I've given you to pay me the rent—five weeks out of the generosity and goodness of my heart—and now you tell me this old wives' tale!†  (source)
  • There is truth to the old wives' tale that women who are pregnant glow, and I remember thinking that I wanted to look just like them when I grew up.†  (source)
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It was an old wives' tale of the same category as that in which it was imputed to masturbation such scourges as acne, or warts, or madness.†  (source)
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