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"text": "c. 1800, Anne Isabella Byron, quoted in Malcolm Elwin, Lord Byron's wife\nI shall write to you tomorrow on a subject which I have not now time to discuss. This I declare now because I like to excite your curiosity, and to delay gratifying it. I am a sweet chicken ! ! ! You ought to think me the most barley-sugar daughter in the creation!"
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"ref": "1824, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 126",
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"ref": "1851, The New monthly belle assemblée, page 292",
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"ref": "1935, Anthony Bertram, The House: A Machine for Living In; a Summary of the Art and Science of Homemaking Considered Functionally",
"text": "Chair-backs were very straight and no time was wasted on carving. This severe discipline prepared English craftsmen for their great period. After a slight relapse under Charles II into rather frivolous forms — very barley-sugar, but discreet […]",
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"ref": "1963, Radio Astronomy",
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"ref": "1988, Robert Milburn, Early Christian Art and Architecture, Univ of California Press, page 95",
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"ref": "2008, John Mortimer, Summer's Lease, Penguin UK",
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"ref": "2012, Jane Beck, For Better For Worse, Troubador Publishing Ltd",
"text": "Kate's living room was simply furnished with a large damask-covered sofa that had seen better days, a folding table with barley sugar legs and a couple of upright chairs.",
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"Twisted helically."
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"(not comparable) Twisted helically."
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},
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"ref": "1988, Robert Milburn, Early Christian Art and Architecture, Univ of California Press, page 95",
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},
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Jane Beck, For Better For Worse, Troubador Publishing Ltd",
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