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"ref": "1830, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various Translations, page 383:",
"text": "No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung.",
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"ref": "1862, Václav Vratislav, Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw: what he saw in Constantinople, in his captivity, page 129:",
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"ref": "1872, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa, page 595:",
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"ref": "1904, William Everett, The Italian Poets Since Dante, page 181:",
"text": "...in homicidal feud, By slight punctilio urged, a jealous smart Against his friend be to deal a blow bestung,—",
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"ref": "1935, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, page 167:",
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