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"word": "rinxolar"
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"ref": "1758, John Blake, A Plan, for regulating the Marine System of Great Britain, page 44",
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"ref": "1842, Frederick Marryat, Percival Keene, page 215",
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"ref": "1840, Washington Irving, “The Count Van Horn”, in The Knickerbocker, page 243",
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"ref": "1887 May 21, “Mr Besant's romance of the sea”, in The Spectator, volume 60, page 691",
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"ref": "1833 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Mémoires, Correspondance, et Ouvrage inédit de Diderot”, in The Foreign Quarterly Review, page 269",
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"ref": "1837, Arthur Wellesley, edited by John Gurwood, The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington during his Various Campaigns, volume 9, pages 235-6",
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"ref": "1839 February 11, The Standard, London, page 4",
"text": "—why not create customers in the Queen's dominions for our own manufacturing produce, instead of trying at enormous expense to crimp them in other countries?",
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"ref": "1867, Goldwin Smith, Three English Statesmen, page 235",
"text": "Voltaire is never so good as when he is ridiculing the cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform, teaches them to march and wheel, and sends them off to kill and be killed.",
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"ref": "1884 February 1, Henry Labouchere, “Scuttling out of Egypt”, in The Pall Mall Budget, page 7",
"text": "On this the Egyptian Government crimped negroes in the streets of Cairo, appointed the most notorious ex-slave-dealer in the Soudan to command them, converted policemen into soldiers, and announced that these negroes and policemen were to be sent to the Soudan",
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