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"ref": "1981, Michael Jackson, Jessica Jackson, Bruce Jackson, Your father's not coming home any more, page 53",
"text": "And here we walk in the house with two coatfuls and armfuls of these bulbs.",
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"ref": "2013, James Rollins, Rebecca Cantrell, Innocent Blood",
"text": "Instead of using the coat to batter the threat away, he used its length and bulk like a huge net. He cast it out, scooping coatfuls of the fluttering horde out of the air.",
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"ref": "1930, Life - Volume 96, page 8",
"text": "A coatful of wind is called an admiral.",
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"ref": "1970 January 19, George Whittington, “Under Eyes of Police: Burglars, Shoplifters Have Hard Time Over Weekend”, in The Clarion-Ledger, volume CXXX, number 249, Jackson, Miss., page 1",
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"ref": "1997, Attila József -, Winter Night: Selected Poems of Attila József, page 64",
"text": "On the outskirts of town, in streetlight like wet straw flung down, off to the side on the corner, a shivering coatful of woes: a man, hunkered down like a pile of dirt, but winter still steps on his toes",
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"ref": "2010, Jay Cassell, The Best Hunting Stories Ever Told, page 192",
"text": "A few moments like this could make the day a lot more glorious than a coatful of birds ever could.",
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"ref": "2015, Clarence E. Mulford, Tex: A Hopalong Cassidy Novel, page 267",
"text": "Within easy reach of his right hand lay a coatful of rocks culled from the road-bed, no mean weapons against figures silhouetted by the lamp-lighted windows of the buildings facing the right-of-way; and close to them were half a dozen dynamite cartridges, their wicked black fuses capped and inserted.",
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"ref": "2017, Adam Croft, Only the Truth",
"text": "A girl who thinks nothing of smuggling a coatful of drugs across two national borders whilst escaping a murder scene with the prime suspect.",
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"ref": "2018, Nicholas Carter, Harvest of Swords",
"text": "Drowning in the harbour with a coatful of coin, hah!",
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"ref": "1977, Charles Veley, Catching up, page 149",
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"ref": "1987, Laima Dingwall, Porcupines, page 23",
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"ref": "1987, Punch - Volume 293, Issues 7662-7669, page xxviii",
"text": "Besides, how is the Oxford ethos going to cope with Business Studies? It is well-known that even the spikiest scientist, the acned misanthrope with a coatful of ballpoint pens, gets softened and blurred in his first term on an Oxford High Table.",
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"ref": "2006, Paul Mandelbaum, Adriane on the Edge, page 241",
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"text": "A coatful of wind is called an admiral.",
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},
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"ref": "1970 January 19, George Whittington, “Under Eyes of Police: Burglars, Shoplifters Have Hard Time Over Weekend”, in The Clarion-Ledger, volume CXXX, number 249, Jackson, Miss., page 1",
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},
{
"ref": "1997, Attila József -, Winter Night: Selected Poems of Attila József, page 64",
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},
{
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"text": "A few moments like this could make the day a lot more glorious than a coatful of birds ever could.",
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},
{
"ref": "2015, Clarence E. Mulford, Tex: A Hopalong Cassidy Novel, page 267",
"text": "Within easy reach of his right hand lay a coatful of rocks culled from the road-bed, no mean weapons against figures silhouetted by the lamp-lighted windows of the buildings facing the right-of-way; and close to them were half a dozen dynamite cartridges, their wicked black fuses capped and inserted.",
"type": "quotation"
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"text": "A girl who thinks nothing of smuggling a coatful of drugs across two national borders whilst escaping a murder scene with the prime suspect.",
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},
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"ref": "2018, Nicholas Carter, Harvest of Swords",
"text": "Drowning in the harbour with a coatful of coin, hah!",
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"ref": "1977, Charles Veley, Catching up, page 149",
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},
{
"ref": "1987, Laima Dingwall, Porcupines, page 23",
"text": "With this coatful of painful weapons, it is not surprising that a porcupine has few enemies.",
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},
{
"ref": "1987, Punch - Volume 293, Issues 7662-7669, page xxviii",
"text": "Besides, how is the Oxford ethos going to cope with Business Studies? It is well-known that even the spikiest scientist, the acned misanthrope with a coatful of ballpoint pens, gets softened and blurred in his first term on an Oxford High Table.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2006, Paul Mandelbaum, Adriane on the Edge, page 241",
"text": "The dog with the lame paw emerged now from the river and after limping over to Adriane, shook off a coatful of Ganges water and dropped his stick in front of her.",
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