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"ref": "1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard",
"text": "This slight way of treating both his book and his ancestors nettled little Puddock – who never himself took a liberty, and expected similar treatment – but he knew Sturk, the nature of the beast, and he only bowed grandly […]",
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"ref": "1884, Frank de Yeaux Carpenter, Round About Rio",
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