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"word": "bombar"
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"ref": "2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06:",
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"ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57:",
"text": "I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.",
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"text": "And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.",
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"ref": "1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII:",
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