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"ref": "1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XXI, Chapter xiii, leaf 430v",
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"ref": "1967, Joseph Singer, Elaine Gottlieb, “Chapter 2”, in Farrar, Straus and Giroux, editor, The Manor, New York, translation of original by Isaac Bashevis Singer, part II, page 29",
"text": "[…] she would take the betrothal document from her father's chest of drawers and pore over the signature: Ezriel Babad. […] His signature seemed to bestride her own.",
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"ref": "1998, Christopher Reich, Numbered Account, New York: Delacorte",
"text": "He made out a stubby automobile bestriding the narrow road.",
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