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"ref": "a. 1763, William Shenstone, Economy: A Rhapsody, addressed to young poets",
"text": "As in a garden, roves, of hues alone\nInquirent, curious?",
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"ref": "1939, Psychiatry - Volume 2, page 475",
"text": "Once a very inquirent disciple by the name of Chi Lu asked about […]",
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"ref": "1854, “Hereward of Brunne”, in Ainsworth's Magazine, page 165",
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"ref": "1916, Camera: A Practical Magazine for Photographers - Volume 20, page 61",
"text": "The factors are so numerous that it is next to impossible to give comprehensive and adequate information in the pages of an ordinary letter to the inquirent.",
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"ref": "2004, Eric Ehrenreich, Genealogy and Genocide, page 198",
"text": "Thus, for example, in December 1936, to facilitate provision of advice to inquirents, Dr. Ludwig, the mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Cologne, provided city employees with an 8 page \"Pamphlet for Kinship Research” which provided city employees with detailed information on the ancestral proof process, including the making of genealogical tables, and the obtaining and evaluation of documents.",
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"ref": "1868, William Hepworth Dixon, Spiritual Wives - Volume 1, page 210",
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"ref": "1891, Sabine Baring-Gould, Historic Oddities and Strange Events",
"text": "When the case was re-opened, at Count Goerlitz's repeated demand, an \"Inquirent” was appointed by the Count to examine the case—that is, an official investigator of all the circumstances; and on November 2, 1847, in the morning, notice was given to the Count that the “Inquirent” would visit his mansion on the morrow and examine both.",
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"ref": "1902, United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division, Publications - Issue 2, page 206",
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"text": "The factors are so numerous that it is next to impossible to give comprehensive and adequate information in the pages of an ordinary letter to the inquirent.",
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},
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"ref": "2004, Eric Ehrenreich, Genealogy and Genocide, page 198",
"text": "Thus, for example, in December 1936, to facilitate provision of advice to inquirents, Dr. Ludwig, the mayor (Oberbürgermeister) of Cologne, provided city employees with an 8 page \"Pamphlet for Kinship Research” which provided city employees with detailed information on the ancestral proof process, including the making of genealogical tables, and the obtaining and evaluation of documents.",
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},
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"ref": "1891, Sabine Baring-Gould, Historic Oddities and Strange Events",
"text": "When the case was re-opened, at Count Goerlitz's repeated demand, an \"Inquirent” was appointed by the Count to examine the case—that is, an official investigator of all the circumstances; and on November 2, 1847, in the morning, notice was given to the Count that the “Inquirent” would visit his mansion on the morrow and examine both.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1902, United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division, Publications - Issue 2, page 206",
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