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"ref": "1943, Frank Alfred Lea, Carlyle: prophet of to-day",
"text": "All the people are in a sort of joydom over the new French Republic,' he wrote to Emerson, 'which has descended suddenly (or shall we say, ascended, alas!) out of the Immensities upon us; […]",
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"ref": "1950, Dornford Yates, Lower Than Vermin",
"text": "I trust he is full with joydom to be with his scholars again.\" Not daring to trust her voice, Vivien inclined her head.",
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"ref": "1991, Xam Wilson Cartiér, Muse-echo blues",
"text": "When you thought of Chicago, you thought of the joydom called Jazz.",
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"ref": "2005, Theodore Russell Weiss, Renée Karol Weiss, The Always Present Present: Letters, Poems",
"text": "Your cummings joydom joydoms me. He has, as you see, that innocence & fraternity of things I love so much, that easy oneness with the world: the world in his hands is a sauntering along, a song, a gaiety as of a late spring rain […]",
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"ref": "2007, Robert H. Cataliotti, The Songs Became the Stories",
"text": "The association of Chicago with \"the joydom of jazz\" inspires Lena to name her son after the city, yet the impulse to find a creative outlet through the music is so strong that it prompts her to abandon her child when her husband attempts to stifle her creativity and career.",
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