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"text": "c. 1890, May Ostlere, Dead! London: Trischler, Chapter 3, p. 76,\nNow [the wind] swithered through the badly-fixed windows, making zithering sounds as of an army of cold and frozen-out mosquitoes […]"
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"ref": "1985, Kim Chapin, chapter 19, in Dogwood Afternoons, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 178",
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"ref": "1996, Carl Huberman, chapter 38, in Eminent Domain, London: Macmillan, page 328",
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"ref": "2004, Matt Braun, chapter 15, in Black Gold, New York: St Martin’s Paperbacks, page 158",
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