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"ref": "1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in A Tale of Two Cities, volume book 3, London: Chapman and Hall, page 204:",
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"ref": "1652, Anthony Burgess, Spiritual Refining, London: Thomas Underhill, Sermon 119, page 688:",
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"ref": "1667, George Sikes, chapter 15, in The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomiz’d, London, section 2, page 77:",
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"ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, chapter 2, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, volume book 2, London: E. Dod, page 63:",
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"ref": "2006, E. O. Wilson, chapter 6, in The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, volume Part 1, New York: Norton, page 59:",
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"ref": "1652, Anthony Burgess, Spiritual Refining, London: Thomas Underhill, Sermon 119, page 688:",
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"ref": "1667, George Sikes, chapter 15, in The Book of Nature Translated and Epitomiz’d, London, section 2, page 77:",
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"text": "Painted turtles lay oval, elongate eggs.",
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"ref": "1958, Han Suyin, chapter 11, in The Mountain Is Young, New York: Putnam, page 341:",
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"ref": "1976, Don DeLillo, chapter 3, in Ratner's Star, New York: Vintage, 1980, page 46:",
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"ref": "2006, E. O. Wilson, chapter 6, in The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth, volume Part 1, New York: Norton, page 59:",
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