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"text": "to put forth an effort",
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"ref": "1853, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 8, in Ruth",
"text": "He could not move as quickly as most men, but he put forth his utmost speed.",
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"ref": "1950, Josephine Tey, chapter 4, in To Love and Be Wise, New York: Pocket Book, published 1977, page 36",
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"(transitive) To extend forward (a body part or something held)."
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"ref": "1958, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited, New York: Harper & Bros., c. 1962, Chapter 11",
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"ref": "1610, John Healey, transl., St. Augustine, Of the Citie of God, London: George Eld, Book 14, Chapter 21, p. 524",
"text": "[…] they begot no children vntill they were put forth of Paradise […]",
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"ref": "1807, William Wordsworth, Untitled poem in Poems, in Two Volumes, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees & Orme, Volume 1, p. 66, Upon a leaf the Glow-worm did I lay, To bear it with me through the stormy night",
"text": "And, as before, it shone without dismay;\nAlbeit putting forth a fainter light."
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"text": "Thou perceivest the Flowers put forth their precious Odours,\nAnd none can tell how from so small a center comes such sweet,",
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"ref": "1950, C. S. Lewis, chapter 11, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, New York: Macmillan",
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"(of a ship) To leave (a port or haven)."
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"text": "And, as before, it shone without dismay;\nAlbeit putting forth a fainter light."
},
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"ref": "c. 1811, William Blake, edited by E.R.D. Maclagan and A.G.B. Russell, Milton: A Poem in Two Books, London: A. H. Bullen, published 1907, Book Two, p. 34",
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