• Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

  Joseph Addison
  English politician, writer and poet 1672-1719
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1. disputants
2. cuttlefish
3. extricate
4. invisible
5. becomes
6. about

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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible. by : Joseph Addison

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