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"word": "fen cricket"
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"ref": "1807, William Wordsworth, \"England, 1802,\" collected in Poems (1807)",
"text": "Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour:\nEngland hath need of thee: she is a fen\nOf stagnant waters […]"
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"ref": "1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery",
"text": "In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; …"
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"ref": "1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy",
"text": "He was freezing to death in the flat mud of the Suffolk fens, too proud to go home without a catch.",
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"ref": "1994, Ronald David Schwartz, “[Martial Law and After] Symbolic competition”, in Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, published 1996, page 184",
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"ref": "1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life, volume 30, number 21, page 127",
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"ref": "2016 September 3, lurkertype, “Worldcon 75 Chair Responds”, in File 770, Comments",
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