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 Hewson.Hexameter and Pentameter. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Hexameron (The).
 
The six days of creation; any six days taken as one continuous period.   1
        “‘Every winged fowl’ was produced on the fourth day of the Hexameron.”—W. E. Gladstone: Nineteenth Century, January, 1866.
 


 Hewson.Hexameter and Pentameter. 

 
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