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"ref": "1811, Jane Austen, chapter 26, in Sense and Sensibility",
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"ref": "1872 — Johanna Spyri, Heidi, ch. 16 (translated)",
"text": "Heidi ran backwards and forwards as busy as a bee and brought out everything she could find in the cupboard, for she did not know how to be pleased enough that she could help to entertain the doctor."
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"ref": "1914, A. E. W. Mason, chapter XVIII, in The Witness for the Defence",
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"word": "pilný jako mravenec"
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"sense": "working constantly",
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"word": "flitig som en myra"
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