See out of the mouths of babes on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1859, Oliver Wendell Holmes, chapter 1, in The Professor at the Breakfast Table:",
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"ref": "1906, Rudyard Kipling, chapter 10, in Puck of Pook's Hill:",
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"ref": "2010 Feb. 12, \"First Graders' Valentines\" (news video), Time (retrieved 8 Sept 2013)",
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