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Macduff
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tags: [fictional]
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Definition:a main character in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
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Mr O’Madden Burke, following close, said with an ally’s lunge of his umbrella:
—Lay on, Macduff!
James Joyce. Ulysses (1922)
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Before my body I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff;
And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"
William Shakespeare. Macbeth
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Keanrick: Our knocks, impertinent butler, were loud enough to wake the hounds of hell!
[Mossop and Keanrick hand their hats to Blackadder]
Keanrick: [to Mossop] Lead on, MacDuff!
Mossop: I shall...
BBC. Blackadder, season 2: Sense and Senility
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"Wilson, I am ready. Let us attack the enemy."
"Lead on, Macduff!" exclaimed Wilson, full of martial ardor.
Maurice Leblanc. Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes (1910)
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