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"ref": "1858 July, Perry Collins, “Explorations of the Amoor River”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume 17, number 98, page 229",
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"ref": "1909 March 27, “Stopping the Winding. Does the Trades Dispute Act Apply?”, in The Merthyr Express, Aberdare and East Glamorgan Herald, Tredegar and West Monmouth Times, 45th year, number 2206, Merthyr Tydfil, page 4",
"text": "Witness called the fireman and the other fireman to take their names, and he sent for a horse to pull the tram out, and he allowed three cagesful of the men, about sixty, to go out.",
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"ref": "1930, Talbot Mundy, chapter 14, in Black Light, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill",
"text": "[…] I should say she’s as safe as a canary in a cageful of cats.",
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"ref": "1930 March 23, Albert P[ayson] Terhune, “A Gallant Little Dog”, in Dayton Daily News, volume LIII, number 212, Dayton, Ohio",
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"ref": "1948, Electroplating & Metal Finishing",
"text": "The enamelling shop uses an I.C.I. degreasing plant with a most useful air hoist fitted to eliminate lifting of cagesful of clock cases by manual effort — a further instance of the use of air power in this factory.",
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"ref": "1956 December 13, Phyllis Battelle, “Oh Dear, No Deer: Christmas Not Same in Supersonic Age”, in The Indianapolis News, page 40",
"text": "We left Mr. Luke to wander through the Gimbel menagerie, eight cagesful of animals, from camel to zebra, which had been rented from a game farm in upstate New York.",
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"ref": "1983 December 9, Frederick M. Winship, “Museum Exhibition Honors Designer”, in Alexandria Daily Town Talk, volume 101, number 268, Alexandria-Pineville, La., page C-2",
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},
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