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"ref": "2005, Adrian Michael Kelly, Down Sterling Road, page 87",
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"ref": "2016, Jean Oram, Tequila and Candy Drops",
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"ref": "1997, Ronald Mark Chambers, Three Really Nasty Plays, page 172",
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"ref": "2009, Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, page 178",
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"ref": "2011, John Conrad, Scarce Heard Amid the Guns: An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping, page 156",
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"ref": "2019, A.F. Henley, Road Trip",
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"ref": "2021, Susan Hayes, Mating Fever",
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},
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"ref": "2011, John Conrad, Scarce Heard Amid the Guns: An Inside Look at Canadian Peacekeeping, page 156",
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},
{
"ref": "2019, A.F. Henley, Road Trip",
"text": "Nobody should have known it was there, but someone obviously did. Frank or Mitch probably beaked off to the wrong person and they came sniffing around.",
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},
{
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"text": "The cook had used too much of his own product and started beaking off to the wrong people.",
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},
{
"ref": "1998, Robert McLiam Wilson, Ripley Bogle, page 49",
"text": "I beaked off school on the afternoon of one of the most important Orange marches of the year.",
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},
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"ref": "2013, Neil Mackay, All the Little Guns Went Bang, Bang, Bang",
"text": "Roger the Dodger is always pulling a swifty and beaking off school – covering his face in his mammy's compact powder to make himself look all ill and deathly pale; using her lippy to put red dots on himself like he's got the measles.",
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