Quaint anticipation
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quaint anticipation .. phrase quote from Sir Alfred Robbins, Parnell: The Last Five Years, 145: (of Parnell) 'Labouchere... bitterly complained one night in the Lobby that the Nationalist leader, after getting up in the House and boasting what he could prove, had not as much as a scrap of paper — quaint anticipation of a long-afterwards fatal phrase — to back him up'
