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"ref": "1981, Aldon J. Hilton, Winning the dental insurance game: operations manual, page 110",
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"ref": "2014, Alice Clayton, Rusty Nailed, page 90",
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"ref": "2000, Leon Garfield, Jack Holborn, page 195",
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"ref": "1929, Munsey's Magazine - Volume 96, page 436",
"text": "There will be no chairful of girlishness reading Bertha M. Clay, nor a rockerful of grandma knitting, nor a stoolful of big sister strumming \" Forgotten.\"",
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},
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},
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},
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},
{
"ref": "1942, William Edward Cox, Southern Sidelights, page 37",
"text": "My mother carded her own rolls and laid them across a chair till they piled up almost to the top of the chair-back, then put cards aside and spun the whole chairful of rolls.",
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},
{
"ref": "1969, House and Garden - Volume 136, page 180",
"text": "Every home should have at least one corner that's all his . . . with a big, brawny chairful of solid comfort waiting just for him.",
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},
{
"ref": "2000, Leon Garfield, Jack Holborn, page 195",
"text": "When we got back to Dover Street, pacing the chairful of presents, that letter was awaiting us.",
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},
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},
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