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"ref": "2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 28, in Small Island, London: Review, page 295",
"text": "The plughole started to slurp loudly as the water went down it.",
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"ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 199",
"text": "He jabbed his fingers into his hair and worked the dirt from the follicles, watched it swirl away down the plughole, sandy granules, flakes of dust and ash.",
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