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"text": "In the household of Joan Holand, crayfish or lobsters (crevis) appeared on 26 and 27 February 1378 and on 1 and 2 October in the same year; at Hunstanton one crevis was served on Good Friday 1349; none appeared at Frampton.",
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene:",
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"ref": "1659, Thomas Hooker, The Application of Redemption:",
"text": "It's the traversing of a mans thoughts, the coasting of the mind and imagination into every crevis and corner, pryes into every particular, takes a special view of the borders and confines of any corruption or condition that comes to be scanned,",
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"ref": "1775, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, A Voyage to the Isle of Mauritius, page 40:",
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"ref": "1920, Thomas Maitland Marshall, Early Records of Gilpin County, Colorado, 1859-1861, page 37:",
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"ref": "1949, Harry Belleville Eisberg, J. E. Owens, Fundamentals of Arctic and Cold Weather Medicine and Dentistry, page 197:",
"text": "Irrigation under tissue flap partially covering the tooth and application of glycerite of iodine and zinc, into the tissue crevis surrounding the tooth.",
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"ref": "1949, Harold Evans, Men in the Tropics: A Colonial Anthology, page 142:",
"text": "He has a joynt or crevis about an inch within the utmost edge of his shell, which goes round about his body from his head to his tail, on his belly side; into which joynt or crevis, you put your knife, beginning at the head, and so rip up that side, and then do as much to the other;",
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"ref": "1970, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Dental Technician, page 93:",
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"ref": "2013, M.P. Hingos, Steele Hearts: Revelations, page 74:",
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},
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"text": "He has a joynt or crevis about an inch within the utmost edge of his shell, which goes round about his body from his head to his tail, on his belly side; into which joynt or crevis, you put your knife, beginning at the head, and so rip up that side, and then do as much to the other;",
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},
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"ref": "1970, United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel, Dental Technician, page 93:",
"text": "The edge of the free gingiva is the gingival margin (gingival crest) and the gingval sulcus is the crevis between the free gingiva and the tooth.",
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},
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"ref": "2013, M.P. Hingos, Steele Hearts: Revelations, page 74:",
"text": "Thoughts of the end of Connor and I looming near by and the fact that I would be in Chicago, the closest I would be to Iowas in years, the place where I was born and grew up in, thoughts of the family I left there that threaten to break out of the deep crevis of my brain where I keep them locked, all rush into my head, giving me a dull headache.",
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},
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"text": "Clinical examination revealed coronal color change of the tooth involved and pus draining from the gingival crevis.",
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