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"ref": "1873, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 31, page 322",
"text": "A frequent cougher in a church sets nearly the whole congregation to coughing.",
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"ref": "1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 161",
"text": "The widow turned her usually unemotional face to the cougher, and the concern on her countenance showed that the innuendo of the reverend alarmist had reached even her. But the organist's pretty eyes had forestalled her, and the glance she sent to the cougher said plainly: 'You want my care and attention.'",
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"ref": "2002, Joy Hakim, War, Peace, and All that Jazz, page 22",
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