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"ref": "1864-1865, Charles Dickens, “Book The First, chapter 2 \"The Man from Somewhere\"”, in Our Mutual Friend, archived from the original on 2014-01-06",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (93a6c53 and 21a9316). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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