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"text": "Scarce has the fish, bull-headed cod or blushing mullet, swum into our ken ere a cork leaps forth with a cloop of joy, and straightway, as on the approach of spring, the sap stirs and the buds of speech burst into life, and talk, reluctant and hidebound no more, bursts into many-coloured bloom.",
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"text": "[M]en / and women who enjoy the cloop of corks, appreciate / dapatical fare, yet can see in swallowing / a sign act of reverence, / in speech a work of re-presenting / the true olamic silence.",
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"text": "‘Cloops’ and ‘splooshes’ across the river were close enough to soak me, bats skimming the surface of the river wafted my face with their vampire-cloak wings, and the occasional ‘thunk’ of a suicidal moth hitting the lamp sounded like a gun-shot.",
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"text": "What is with us mainly a harsh, metallic shriek, a grind of trolley wheels upon trolley tracks, and a wild battering of their polygonized circles upon the rails, is in London the dull, tormented roar of the omnibuses and the incessant cloop-cloop of the cab-horses' hoofs.",
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"text": "At the corner of Dover Street there lay a heap of mud and street sweepings, and as we drew up just opposite, blocked by an opposing tide of carriages in Piccadilly, a small, very dapper little gentleman in dress-clothes stepped into the middle of this muck-heap, with the result that one of his dress-pumps was drawn off his unfortunate foot with a ‘cloop’ and stuck there.",
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"text": "On Sunday she jumped off the roan three-year-old at eight o'clock, after she had ridden since six, and after the animal's tired hoofs had clooped over the pavement on Main Street down to the front of our Phirst Fotografer's studio.",
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"text": "Scarce has the fish, bull-headed cod or blushing mullet, swum into our ken ere a cork leaps forth with a cloop of joy, and straightway, as on the approach of spring, the sap stirs and the buds of speech burst into life, and talk, reluctant and hidebound no more, bursts into many-coloured bloom.",
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