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"ref": "1957, The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 230, page 74",
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"ref": "1963, Andrew Sinclair, The paradise bum, page 80",
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"ref": "2013 May 31, Charlotte Higgins, “Venice Biennale diary: dancing strippers and inflatable targets”, in The Guardian",
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},
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},
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"text": "And when he had hooked a fine perch, and Miss BELL made a dash at the line, And the fish flobbered back with a flop, JACK'S escape from a cuss cut it fine.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2012, Steve Turner, Amber Waves and Undertow",
"text": "So we proceeded at chastened speed, the dust reduced enough that our headlights showed Ross's flattened tire as it flobbered joltingly around the rim.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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