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"text": "We skipped the light fandango / Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor",
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"ref": "2008, Gene Fowler, Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters, page 38:",
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"ref": "2013, Alec Dempster, Lotería Jarocha: Linoleum Prints, page 66:",
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"text": "What’s that fandango you’re using?",
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"ref": "1878, Lumasea, Ruined, and how, page 25:",
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"ref": "1901, Marcian, Relics of the Late William Shakespeare, page 21:",
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"ref": "1934, Albert Craig Baird, Essays and Addresses Toward a Liberal Education, page 213:",
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"ref": "1950, Garnett Weston, Legacy of Fear, page 136:",
"text": "Such a fandango of wicked lies Mrs. Love had never heard tell in all her born days.",
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"ref": "2002, David Grossman, The Book of Intimate Grammar: A Novel:",
"text": "So it must have been appalling, a veritable stab in the belly, when these undreamed-of smells infiltrated the familiar ranks, assailing her nostrils with a gypsy effrontery, a fandango of exotic spice.",
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"ref": "2009, Mathew Kinsella, The California Tales: A Novel, page A-285:",
"text": "\"She was latin, and she was satin” a commotion by moonlight a conundrum by candlelight a fandango of respite and tailbones in an invertebratology of polyclads, skates, chitons, and vestigial gills",
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"ref": "1849, Robert Murray Keith, Memoirs and Correspondence (official and Familiar), page 45:",
"text": "I am preparing to set out in a fortnight, or little more, and jogging on comfortably through Bavaria, Suabia, and France (with a fandango of eight days at Paris), I shall get to Calais in the first week of May.",
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"ref": "1979, Toby Cole, Venice, a Portable Reader, page 38:",
"text": "Venice whirled towards her fall, in the reign of the 120th Doge, in a fandango of high living and enjoyment, until at last Napoleon, brusquely deposing her ineffective Government, ended the Republic and handed the Serenissima contemptuously to the Austrians.",
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"ref": "2002, Theatre Record - Volume 22, Issues 19-26, page 1292:",
"text": "Scaramouche, what a fandango of a life.",
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"ref": "2019 July 1, “Chukkas for charity on Hua Hin sands”, in Tatler Thailand:",
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