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"text": "1886, Mary Noailles Murfree (as Charles Egbert Craddock), In the Clouds, Chapter 17, p. 248,\nthe flaming base of the opposite mountain, all luridly aflare in the windy dusk"
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"ref": "1895, Rudyard Kipling, “Letting in the Jungle”, in The Second Jungle Book, London: Macmillan, page 59",
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"ref": "1919, Stella Benson, chapter 7, in Living Alone, London: Macmillan, published 2020, page 184",
"text": "[The dragon] kindly breathed out a little flame, which set the packet aflare for a moment.",
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"ref": "1988, Jory Sherman, chapter 4, in Horne’s Law, New York: Walker and Company, page 30",
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"ref": "1897, Hall Caine, The Christian, London: Heinemann, Book 3, Chapter 15, p. 331",
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"ref": "1921, John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, New York: George H. Doran, Part 6, p. 402",
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"ref": "1968, Michael Moorcock, “The Dreaming City”, in The Stealer of Souls and Other Stories, London: Mayflower Books, page 19",
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"ref": "1983, Ahdaf Soueif, Aisha, London: Black Swan, published 1985, page 163",
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},
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