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"ref": "1981, Fran Grace, Branigan's Dog: A Novel, page 18",
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"ref": "2013, Masashi Haneda, Islamic Urban Studies, page 263",
"text": "In addition, the relationship of merchants with bureaucrats and the ulama needs to be explained, as does the connection between urban notables and the merchant class, since it is virtually impossible to find a truebred merchant mentioned in historical sources of the pre-modern age.",
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"ref": "2015, Peter James Stanlis, Edmund Burke and the Natural Law, page 27",
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"ref": "1958, Joyce Dunsheath, Mountains and memsahibs, page 152",
"text": "A cairn was built. It started as a hybrid Sherpa-Ladakhi one, but this fell down. The final truebred Sherpa one seemed firm enough.",
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"text": "Richard Brathwait,18 (born at Burneside Hall in 1588, died at East Appleton in 1673) much admired Tyrer and mentions him with praise in his poem To all truebred Northerne Sparks, of the generous society of the Cottoneers, who hold their High-roade by the Pinder of Wakefield, the Shoo-maker of Brandford, and the White Coate of Kendall;",
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},
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},
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