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"text": "Our Palates like the Seaſoning and Cookery they are ſet to, and an over much Uſe of Salt, beſides that it occaſions thirſt, and over-much Drinking, has other ill Effects upon the Body.",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 7:16:",
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"ref": "1915, Caradoc Evans, “The Blast of God”, in My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales, New York: Boni & Liveright, published 1918, page 267:",
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"ref": "1922, E. E. Cummings, “Songs, III”, in George J. Firmage, editor, Complete Poems, 1904-1962, New York: Liveright, published 1991, page 13:",
"text": "yet what am i that such and such / mysteries very simple touch / me,whose heart-wholeness overmuch / Expects of your hair pale, / a terror musical?",
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"ref": "1956, Langston Hughes, chapter 3, in Joseph McLaren, editor, I Wonder as I Wander, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, published 2003, page 115:",
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