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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "careful attentive; diligent",
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"ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
"text": "I esteeme Bocace his Decameron, Rabelais, and the kisses of John the second (if they may be placed under this title) worth the paines-taking to reade them.",
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"ref": "c. 1836, Thomas Chalmers, Lectures on the Romans:",
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"ref": "1852, Nathaniel Langdon Frothingham, “Sermon VI”, in Sermons in the Order of a Twelvemonth:",
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