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"ref": "1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz",
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"text": "Business always falls off in the winter."
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"ref": "1950 January, “The North Pembrokeshire Line, Western Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 8",
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"ref": "2021, Lil Nas X, THE MONTERO SHOW",
"text": "\"Ratio. YoungBoy is better.\" \"What?\" \"Make better music. You fell off.\"",
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"ref": "2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 57",
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"text": "1854, Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Lawrence v. Minturn, Opinion of the Court\nShe would not mind her helm, but would fall off; she would settle down aft and take in water over her stern, and plunged heavily forward."
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},
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"ref": "2023 June 28, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: Alton to Exeter”, in RAIL, number 986, page 57",
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},
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