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"ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 310:",
"text": "Long, long would it be ere Miss Crawford’s name passed his lips again, or she could hope for a renewal of such confidential intercourse as had been.",
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"ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 11, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 60:",
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"ref": "1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York: Scribner, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 329:",
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"ref": "1923, Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, London: Cassell, Part 5, Chapter 2, p. 241:",
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"text": "Now, they want me to send up a confidential person with some writings.",
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"ref": "1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 18, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, volume 1, London: T.C. Newby, pages 320–321:",
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"ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book I (Recalled to Life), page 11:",
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