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"ref": "1995, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, A Well-Painted Passion, page 110",
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"ref": "2005, Laurence Fleming, On Torquemada's Sofa, page 51",
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"ref": "2010, Jeffrey Schloss, Michael Murray, The Believing Primate",
"text": "Whether an amoebic blodge or a zebra, the struggle for existence has always been a bloodbath of death and displacement, without sentiment, without compassion.",
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"ref": "2011, Aidan Chambers, Breaktime & Dance on My Grave, page 96",
"text": "My nose be purple veined, a blodge that dribbles like a leaking tube of glue.",
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"ref": "1951, Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service",
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"ref": "2016, Holly Bourne, How Hard Can Love Be?",
"text": "A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.",
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"ref": "1989, A bright remembrance, page 4",
"text": "The handwriting hardly changes, except in moments of great distress when it shrinks, becoming barely legible while the pages are often blodged with ink, or even with tears.",
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"ref": "1995, Anne Redmon, The Judgement of Solomon, page 50",
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"ref": "2008, P. D. James, Cover Her Face",
"text": "The window was open and the pillow of the bed was blodged with rain.",
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},
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"text": "A pocket of dread blodged into my belly about what might happen next.",
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"ref": "1989, A bright remembrance, page 4",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1995, Anne Redmon, The Judgement of Solomon, page 50",
"text": "She kept trying to stop the tears, but they rushed down her cheeks blodging her careful make-up, clogging her nose.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, P. D. James, Cover Her Face",
"text": "The window was open and the pillow of the bed was blodged with rain.",
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