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"ref": "1891, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 8, in The White Company (fiction)",
"text": "\"I have heard that the Scots are good men of war,\" said Hordle John. \"For axemen and for spearmen I have not seen their match,\" the archer answered. […] \"And the French?\" asked Alleyne, to whom the archer's light gossip had all the relish that the words of the man of action have for the recluse.",
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"ref": "1909, O. Henry, Roads of Destiny",
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"ref": "1942 June 1, “Heroes: Jimmy Did It”, in TIME, archived from the original on 2022-06-28",
"text": "The world found out last week who led the daring, destructive noonday air raid on Japan last month[:] […] pugnacious Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, 45, speed flyer, engineer, scholar and man of action.",
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"ref": "2017 December 1, Charles McGrath, “Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Life in Letters”, in New York Times (book review), archived from the original on 2017-12-03",
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