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"ref": "1916, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 18, in Uneasy Money",
"text": "I'm scared, I'm just boneless with fright.",
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"ref": "1931, Winston Churchill, House of Commons, 13 May",
"text": "I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit … which I most desired to see was the one described as \"The Boneless Wonder.\" My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthful eyes, and I have waited fifty years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."
},
{
"ref": "2006 November 11, Graham Searjeant, “Loyalty pays off for M&S shareholders”, in The Times, London",
"text": "Had the Green consortium made a straight bid, boneless fund managers would easily have outvoted private investors.",
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"ref": "2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)",
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},
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"sense": "without bones",
"word": "обезкостен"
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"word": "schier"
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"sense": "without bones",
"word": "ἀνόστεος"
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"sense": "without bones",
"word": "díchnámhaithe"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"sense": "without bones",
"word": "gan chnámha"
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"word": "disossato"
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{
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"word": "beinlaus"
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"code": "tl",
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"sense": "without bones",
"word": "hukhok"
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"word": "diasgwrn"
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