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"ref": "1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring",
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"ref": "c. 1596, John Donne, “Elegie XX: Loves Warre”, in Charles M. Coffin, editor, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, New York: Modern Library, page 84",
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"text": "1693, John Dryden (translator), The Satires of Juvenal, London: Jacob Tonson, Satire 1, p. 10,\n[…] Nay some have learn’d the trick\nTo beg for absent persons; feign them sick,\nClose mew’d in their Sedans, for fear of air:"
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"ref": "1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 50, in The Adventures of Roderick Random.",
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"(of a bird) To moult."
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