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"ref": "1896, Fiona Macleod, The Washer of the Ford, Edinburgh: Patrick Geddes, page 273",
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"ref": "1913, Mary Austin, The Lovely Lady, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page, Part 1, p. 23",
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"ref": "1985, Conrad Richter, “As It Was in the Beginning”, in The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, page 153",
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"ref": "1893, Ambrose Bierce, “The Death of Halpin Frayser”, in Can Such Things Be?, New York: Cassell, page 17",
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"ref": "1913, William Butler Yeats, “The Grey Rock”, in Responsibilities and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 9",
"text": "And she with Goban’s wine adrip,\nNo more remembering what had been,\nStared at the gods with laughing lip.",
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"ref": "1948, Edgar Maass, The Queen’s Physician, New York: Scribner, Book 3, Chapter 8",
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"ref": "1890, Donald G. Mitchell, chapter 5, in English Lands, Letters and Kings: From Elizabeth to Anne, New York: Scribner, pages 190–191",
"text": "[…] he [Andrew Marvell] was witty with the wittiest; was caustic, humorous; his pages adrip with classicisms;",
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"ref": "1919, Irving Babbitt, chapter 10, in Rousseau and Romanticism, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 368",
"text": "the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul",
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"ref": "1985, Peter Popham, chapter 5, in Tokyo: The City at the End of the World, Tokyo: Kodansha International, page 132",
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"text": "And she with Goban’s wine adrip,\nNo more remembering what had been,\nStared at the gods with laughing lip.",
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},
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"text": "Melting snow gurgled in drainspouts and gutters, all Copenhagen was adrip.",
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"ref": "1919, Irving Babbitt, chapter 10, in Rousseau and Romanticism, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 368",
"text": "the humanitarian, all adrip with brotherhood and profoundly convinced of the loveliness of his own soul",
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},
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"ref": "1985, Peter Popham, chapter 5, in Tokyo: The City at the End of the World, Tokyo: Kodansha International, page 132",
"text": "All the big hotels here are adrip with neon, with flashing signs, nameboards that light up one letter at a time, zipping dotted arrows […]",
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