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"ref": "1926, Robert H. Davis, Irvin S. Cobb, Over My Left Shoulder, page 20",
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"ref": "1992, Barry Dickins, Post Office Restaurant and Other Stories, page 42",
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"ref": "2002, John Scott, “Warra Warra”, in Peter Craven, editor, The Best Australian Stories 2002, page 311",
"text": "They stood, mouths open and teeth bared, till the yolk-like film that seeped from their gums had slid to form small gobfuls, at which time, one after the other like a Gatling gun, they spat the slime at Pemmell′s face.",
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"ref": "1921, Charles David Isaacson, Face to Face with Great Musicians, volume 2, page 197",
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"ref": "2005, L.J. Adlington, The Diary of Pelly-D, unnumbered page",
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"ref": "2009, British House of Commons East Midlands Regional Select Committee, East Midlands Development Agency and the Regional Economic Strategy: First Report of Session 2008-09, page 29",
"text": "Mr Laxton:[…]I once had a conversation with someone who was a permanent secretary — a top-notch civil servant in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — who was in the business of handing out big gobfuls of money — billions here, there and everywhere.",
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"text": "2007, Gideon Haigh, article in The Guardian, reprinted 2008, The Warne-Muralitharan Trophy: Marrige of Inconvenience, Inside Out: Writings on Cricket Culture, page 54,\nBut his erstwhile colleague Jason Gillespie believes that the Sri Lankan probably expects it: ‘With Murali coming out he always cops a gobful in Australia and he′ll be expecting to cop that again. He might have to grin and bear it. […] ’"
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"ref": "2011, Niall Griffiths, Grits, page 275",
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"ref": "2009, British House of Commons East Midlands Regional Select Committee, East Midlands Development Agency and the Regional Economic Strategy: First Report of Session 2008-09, page 29",
"text": "Mr Laxton:[…]I once had a conversation with someone who was a permanent secretary — a top-notch civil servant in the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — who was in the business of handing out big gobfuls of money — billions here, there and everywhere.",
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},
{
"ref": "2011, Barry Hall, Michael Cowley, Pulling No Punches, unnumbered page",
"text": "I usually cop gobfuls from opposition fans, which is fair enough. They pay their money to come along and give it to the players they don′t like.",
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},
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"ref": "2011, Niall Griffiths, Grits, page 275",
"text": "—-Cheeky southern blert, a sey an am about ter give im a real gobful but then a don′t bother. It woulden be werth it like.",
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