See wold on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza 69:",
"text": "And therefore did he take a trusty band\nTo traverse Acarnania forest wide,\nIn war well-seasoned, and with labours tanned,\nTill he did greet white Achelous’ tide,\nAnd from his farther bank Ætolia’s wolds espied.",
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"ref": "1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1865, Christina Rossetti, “From Sunset to Star Rise”, in Poems, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., published 1906, page 26:",
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"ref": "1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza 69:",
"text": "And therefore did he take a trusty band\nTo traverse Acarnania forest wide,\nIn war well-seasoned, and with labours tanned,\nTill he did greet white Achelous’ tide,\nAnd from his farther bank Ætolia’s wolds espied.",
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"ref": "1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “To J. S.”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 158:",
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"ref": "1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC:",
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"ref": "1865, Christina Rossetti, “From Sunset to Star Rise”, in Poems, Boston: Little, Brown & Co., published 1906, page 26:",
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"ref": "1881, Oscar Wilde, “Rome Unvisited”, in Poems, 12th edition, London: Methuen & Co., published 1913, page 48:",
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"ref": "1942, Neville Shute, chapter 8, in Pied Piper, New York: William Morrow & Co:",
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