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"ref": "1993, Rory MacLean, Stalin’s Nose, page 210",
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"ref": "1996, Bill Crider, A Dangerous Thing, page 52",
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"ref": "2002, Tribune, LXVI, page 45",
"text": "It is unwise for auterists to put auteurs on a pedal stool above nonauteurs.",
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"ref": "2007, Mamet, Hush Ma, page 103",
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"ref": "2008, Debbie Graham, The Mutts Nuts, page 140",
"text": "He was still not one hundred percent certain that she would carry out any further threats and Luke would bounce back and return to her good books and his place on her pedal stool.",
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"text": "2009, Clarence Bowser (AKA Tutu), Four Steps to Making a Perfect Relationship, But There’s Always One Thing Missing, chapter 13: “Turning Darkness into Rage!”\nI put all my emotions on my shoulders and took the pain and places it at on a pedal stool like it was a gift from God!"
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"ref": "2010, Candice Payne-Dennie, Pretty, Never Saved Me No Pain, page 218",
"text": "My father was always good to my Mother. He put her on a pedal stool and never brought her down.",
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"ref": "1996, Bill Crider, A Dangerous Thing, page 52",
"text": "They retire and get put up on a pedal-stool by there fans.",
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"text": "It is unwise for auterists to put auteurs on a pedal stool above nonauteurs.",
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"text": "The author puts women on a pedal stool.",
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"text": "Leah, holding high to her own personal beliefs took a path that would soon put her on a pedal stool upon other Christians.",
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},
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"ref": "2007, Mamet, Hush Ma, page 103",
"text": "“You know it’s against the rules to date the judge Juliet, our rivals will put you on a pedal stool”.",
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"ref": "2008, Debbie Graham, The Mutts Nuts, page 140",
"text": "He was still not one hundred percent certain that she would carry out any further threats and Luke would bounce back and return to her good books and his place on her pedal stool.",
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},
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"text": "2009, Clarence Bowser (AKA Tutu), Four Steps to Making a Perfect Relationship, But There’s Always One Thing Missing, chapter 13: “Turning Darkness into Rage!”\nI put all my emotions on my shoulders and took the pain and places it at on a pedal stool like it was a gift from God!"
},
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"ref": "2010, Candice Payne-Dennie, Pretty, Never Saved Me No Pain, page 218",
"text": "My father was always good to my Mother. He put her on a pedal stool and never brought her down.",
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