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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
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"text": "c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Troilus and Cressida\nPity that the researchful notary has not either told us in what century, and of what history, he was a writer, or been simply content to depose, that Lollius, if a writer of that name existed at all, was a somewhat somewhere."
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"text": "Am I to blame for this, / That here come those that worship me? Ha! ha! / They think that I am somewhat. What am I?",
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Download raw JSONL data for somewhat meaning in All languages combined (20.6kB)
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