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"ref": "1989 April 15, Eileen Bolinsky, Wendy Bennet-Alder, “I'm Slowly Getting To The Anger”, in Gay Community News, page 7",
"text": "About two years ago I had been feeling tired and draggy for about six months. I went to find out what was going on. They told me I had Epstein-Barr.",
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"ref": "2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections",
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"ref": "2019 August 15, Bob Stanley, “'Groovy, groovy, groovy': listening to Woodstock 50 years on – all 38 discs”, in The Guardian",
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"ref": "1998 November 17, softrat, “New in this ng”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet)",
"text": ">(Gets an offended look) Don't listen to him, Patricia!!!\n>\n>-Kazul\nWas I offensive, my little draggy-poo? I so sowwy.\nBTW, have you ever heard of the SciFi story called \"The Game of Rat and Dragon\"?",
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"ref": "1999 September 21, Fulgore, quoting Karenji, “The Dragon's Quest”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet)",
"text": "> Once there was a dragon […] > Thank you everyone, for making this little draggy feel right at home.",
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"ref": "2014, Kjartan Poskitt, Borgon the Axeboy and the Dangerous Breakfast, Faber and Faber",
"text": "‘[…] He is just SO cute, aren’t you, my little baby draggy yum yums?’ / ‘Baby draggy yum yums?’ repeated Borgon. ‘Look what he did to my axe!’",
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"ref": "2014, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Son of No One, St. Martin’s Press",
"text": "The blood drained from his face as he turned to see the dragon crouched low, watching them. “Nice, draggy, draggy,” Josette breathed in a singsongy tone.",
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"ref": "2017, Robert Montgomery, Through the Event Horizon, Xlibris",
"text": "“Here Draggy, Draggy, Draggy, where are you, you sadistic whelp” taunted Grinsfeld as he crept down the staircase into the dungeon.",
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"ref": "2020, John Rogan, Shadowcast, Lulu, page 126",
"text": "Lisa backed away as the beast opened its jaws. “Good dragon. Who’s a good draggy? Queen draggy.[…]”",
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"ref": "1998 November 17, softrat, “New in this ng”, in alt.fan.tolkien (Usenet)",
"text": ">(Gets an offended look) Don't listen to him, Patricia!!!\n>\n>-Kazul\nWas I offensive, my little draggy-poo? I so sowwy.\nBTW, have you ever heard of the SciFi story called \"The Game of Rat and Dragon\"?",
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"ref": "1999 September 21, Fulgore, quoting Karenji, “The Dragon's Quest”, in alt.fan.dragons (Usenet)",
"text": "> Once there was a dragon […] > Thank you everyone, for making this little draggy feel right at home.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Kjartan Poskitt, Borgon the Axeboy and the Dangerous Breakfast, Faber and Faber",
"text": "‘[…] He is just SO cute, aren’t you, my little baby draggy yum yums?’ / ‘Baby draggy yum yums?’ repeated Borgon. ‘Look what he did to my axe!’",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Son of No One, St. Martin’s Press",
"text": "The blood drained from his face as he turned to see the dragon crouched low, watching them. “Nice, draggy, draggy,” Josette breathed in a singsongy tone.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Robert Montgomery, Through the Event Horizon, Xlibris",
"text": "“Here Draggy, Draggy, Draggy, where are you, you sadistic whelp” taunted Grinsfeld as he crept down the staircase into the dungeon.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2020, John Rogan, Shadowcast, Lulu, page 126",
"text": "Lisa backed away as the beast opened its jaws. “Good dragon. Who’s a good draggy? Queen draggy.[…]”",
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