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"ref": "1887, H. Rider Haggard, Jess",
"text": "\"This wall is badly built,\" he went on in a careless tone; \"look, there is another space there at the back;\" and he actually came up to it and held the lantern close to the airhole in such fashion that its light shone through into Jess's eyes and nearly blinded her.",
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