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"ref": "1898, Hans Peter Nielsen Gammel, Cadwell Walton Raines, George Preston Finlay, David Edward Simmons, The Laws of Texas 1822-1897, page 685",
"text": "CHAPTER XLVII. An act to regulate the straying of stock, in certain counties therein named. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Texas, That hereafter when any stray horse, mare, colt, mule, Jack, or jinnet, shall be found on the plantation or land of any citizen of this State […]",
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"ref": "1960, John B. Keane, Sharon’s Grave: A Folk Play in Two Acts, page 27",
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"ref": "2012 July 12, Pat McCabe, The Dead School, page 3",
"text": "She was only codding. Or ‘acting the jinnet’ as his da called it. Man, dear, but your mother’s an awful woman for acting the jinnet,’ he’d say.",
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"ref": "2013 July 25, Elaine Crowley, The Ways Of Women",
"text": "‘You’re looking very tired - did she keep you awake?’ ‘No, she’s as good as gold.’ ‘Not like him, he’s a crying jinnet.",
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},
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