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"ref": "1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers",
"text": "Let me have nine penn'orth o' brandy and water luke, and the inkstand, will you, miss?",
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"ref": "1881, Ælfric, trans. Walter W. Skeat, Aelfric’s Lives of Saints, page 249",
"text": "Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,\ncast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself\nin the luke water, and turned from his companions;\nbut he died as soon as he touched the water,\nand the warmness was turned into death to him […]"
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"ref": "1946, Arthur Kober, That Man is Here Again: The Adventures of a Hollywood Agent, Random House",
"text": "Next thing, I have a confrince with Barry and I tells him, 'Frankly, kid, it don't look any too hot over there at Regal. In fack, very luke.'",
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"ref": "1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106",
"text": "Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]",
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"ref": "2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now",
"text": "Same time, if you put the other hand in cold water and then in luke water, you will feel luke warm water is hot.",
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"text": "Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,\ncast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself\nin the luke water, and turned from his companions;\nbut he died as soon as he touched the water,\nand the warmness was turned into death to him […]"
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"ref": "1946, Arthur Kober, That Man is Here Again: The Adventures of a Hollywood Agent, Random House",
"text": "Next thing, I have a confrince with Barry and I tells him, 'Frankly, kid, it don't look any too hot over there at Regal. In fack, very luke.'",
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{
"ref": "1983, C. Darrel Sheraw, Lou Horton, Bill Durbin, The Call Duck Breed Book, page 106",
"text": "Secondly, fresh, preferably luke to warm water must be provided in waterers every day to avoid dehydration, weakening and ‘going light’. […] Warm to luke water is given in waterers as an alternative because all fowl drink more water if it is not excessively cold, […]",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2016, Ankur and Vandana Mehrotra, You Can Do It: Find Answers to All Your Questions on How to Become a Successful Entrepreneur Now",
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