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"text": "When the right-away was given, Driver Gibson would give a sonorous blast on Cardean's deep-toned hooter, and amid a flurry of swirling steam the train would move majestically out, with nearly half the city of Carlisle—or so it would appear—as onlookers on the platform.",
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"text": "1998, Gillian Catriona Ramchand, Deconstructing the Lexicon, in Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds. “The Projection of Arguments”\nThese [argument structure] modifications are important because they have provoked a flurry of investigation into argument structure operations of merger, demotion etc."
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"ref": "1998, Jonathan Langley, Collins Bedtime Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Tales, Pigs to Market, page 53",
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"ref": "2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC",
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"ref": "1988 October, K. Wayne Wride, “Fruit Treats”, in Vegetarian Times, number 134, page 27",
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"ref": "2002, Tampa Bay Magazine (volume 17, number 3, May-June 2002, page 235)",
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"ref": "1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew",
"text": "She was flurried by the term with which he had qualified her gentle friend, but she took the occasion for one to which she must in every manner lend herself.",
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},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "agitate",
"word": "wervelen"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "agitate",
"word": "innervosire"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "budorážitʹ",
"sense": "agitate",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "будора́жить"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vzbudorážitʹ",
"sense": "agitate",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "взбудора́жить"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "move in a flurry",
"word": "wervelen"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sujetítʹsja",
"sense": "move in a flurry",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "суети́ться"
}
],
"word": "flurry"
}
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