"Unbought and unbossed" & "Bloodied but unbowed"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> "Bloodied but unbowed" was used in the recent NYC transit mess. I thought  it
> was older than 1904.

Yes, it certainly is.  For some quotations one goes first to quotation
dictionaries rather than to ProQuest or Newspaperarchive...

Fred "master of my fate" Shapiro


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