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"ref": "1631, Milton, L'Allegro:",
"text": "There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.",
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"ref": "1740, George Frideric Handel, Charles Jennens, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato:",
"text": "As ragged as thy locks,\nIn dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.",
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"ref": "1820, Thomas Love Peacock, The Four Ages of Poetry:",
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"text": "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter VI, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt\nThe glimpse of blue vault far above only heightened the cimmerian gloom of the canyon, and the frowning rocks, which rose abruptly gave one the impression that they were on the point of crashing into the ravine."
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