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Anyone who has camped near a rookery of sooty petrels is aware that they are quite capable of maintaining a sufficiently "babelish confusion" -- the phrase is Camden's -- without any aid from other fowls.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Ernest Scott 1903
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Anyone who has camped near a rookery of sooty petrels is aware that they are quite capable of maintaining a sufficiently “babelish confusion” ” the phrase is Camden's ” without any aid from other fowls.
The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders Scott, Ernest, 1868-1939 1914
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