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"text": "P. G. Wodehouse\nI find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent."
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"text": "1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London\nThey found out that I had gone somewhere, couldn't get in touch, and that put the wind up and they began to imagine everything."
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