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"ref": "2001, Colin Evans, Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever",
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"ref": "2006, Dan Parry, Blackbeard: The Real Pirate of the Caribbean, page 10",
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"ref": "2017, Liz Flaherty, The Happiness Pact",
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"ref": "2006, Isolde Pullum, Brazen Horse, page 68",
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"ref": "1979, Collin Wilcox, Power Plays, page 202",
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"ref": "2007, Kathryn Deans, Glow: Troll's Tale 2: The Continuation of a Troll's Tale",
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"ref": "1981, Tom Ramsey, 25 Great Australian Golf Courses and how to Play Them, page 161",
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"ref": "2001, Henry Stedman, Trekking in the Dolomites, page 138",
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"ref": "1996, Adrienne Simpson, Opera's farthest frontier",
"text": "Standing near the soloists during a finale was a knee-trembling experience.",
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"ref": "2001, Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries",
"text": "Things like the consciousness-expanding, life-altering, knee-trembling mind and music of John Winston Ono Lennon.",
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"ref": "2014, Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love, page 128",
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"ref": "2016, Gwyn Cready, A Novel Seduction",
"text": "It was one thing to accept Axel's friendship, even a friendship with some knee-trembling benefits.",
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"ref": "2004, Investors Chronicle, page 65",
"text": "If the trust's assets grow by 5 per cent each year, the redemption yield for capital shareholders will be a knee-trembling 75.9 per cent a year.",
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"ref": "2013, Philip Ball, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, page vii",
"text": "Not only is it now acceptable to be curious — and this book is largely about how that came to be the case — but it is easier than ever, because of the knee-trembling quantity of information we have at our fingertips.",
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"ref": "2014, Jane Costello, The Time of Our Lives, page 55",
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"ref": "2015, Nick Robinson, Election Notebook",
"text": "Suggestions of a knee-trembling encounter on a snooker table in Bird's gentlemen's club lend the story a Palmerstonesque flavour – legend has it that the Victorian prime minister and old rascal died while potting the balls on the green baize with his maid.",
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"ref": "2001, Colin Evans, Great Feuds in History: Ten of the Liveliest Disputes Ever",
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"ref": "2006, Dan Parry, Blackbeard: The Real Pirate of the Caribbean, page 10",
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},
{
"ref": "2017, Liz Flaherty, The Happiness Pact",
"text": "Her knee-trembling, heart-pounding fear of thunderstorms was no match for her fascination with the light show offered by the sky.",
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},
{
"ref": "2006, Isolde Pullum, Brazen Horse, page 68",
"text": "The first said Clare Philips and Magpie, the second, to my knee-trembling delight, said Adam Bray and Custar and the third one we came to said Paula Wilkie and Jazz, so we went in.",
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},
{
"ref": "2007, Kathryn Deans, Glow: Troll's Tale 2: The Continuation of a Troll's Tale",
"text": "Knee-trembling exhaustion. With each step he'd felt like he was fighting gravity just to stay upright and he'd developed a niggling pain in his lower back, the first pain he had experienced in all his very long years.",
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},
{
"ref": "2009, Robert Kershaw, Tank Men",
"text": "The precursor to advancing across unknown ground was knee-trembling agitation: this may be for the last time.",
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}
],
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"text": "The putting surface, however, has three levels and it can offer a knee-trembling experience where the danger of a three-putt is acute.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2001, Henry Stedman, Trekking in the Dolomites, page 138",
"text": "Where, the purists cry, are the heart-racing climbs and knee-trembling descents for which the Dolomites is justly famed?",
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}
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"Very frightening."
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},
{
"ref": "2001, Geoffrey Giuliano, Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries",
"text": "Things like the consciousness-expanding, life-altering, knee-trembling mind and music of John Winston Ono Lennon.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Cathy Bramley, Conditional Love, page 128",
"text": "Marc flashed me one of his knee-trembling smiles and a minute later we pulled up outside a quaint little pub.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2016, Gwyn Cready, A Novel Seduction",
"text": "It was one thing to accept Axel's friendship, even a friendship with some knee-trembling benefits.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Causing strong emotion; thrilling.",
"Causing a feeling of rapture."
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"ref": "2004, Investors Chronicle, page 65",
"text": "If the trust's assets grow by 5 per cent each year, the redemption yield for capital shareholders will be a knee-trembling 75.9 per cent a year.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Philip Ball, Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, page vii",
"text": "Not only is it now acceptable to be curious — and this book is largely about how that came to be the case — but it is easier than ever, because of the knee-trembling quantity of information we have at our fingertips.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Jane Costello, The Time of Our Lives, page 55",
"text": "A vast foyer leads to a pool area of knee-trembling tranquillity, an oasis of polished tiles and palm trees arranged in a swaying phalanx around an elegant infinity pool.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Causing strong emotion; thrilling.",
"Impressive."
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2015, Nick Robinson, Election Notebook",
"text": "Suggestions of a knee-trembling encounter on a snooker table in Bird's gentlemen's club lend the story a Palmerstonesque flavour – legend has it that the Victorian prime minister and old rascal died while potting the balls on the green baize with his maid.",
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