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"ref": "1882, Cardiff Naturalists' Society, Reports and Transactions - Volume 13, page 31",
"text": "What are Amoy, Fuchoo, and Ningpo, or Tianshan-peelo and Tian-shan-man-loo to English children but plaguy words conveying no information whatever—mere scrag-ends of a musty gazetteer crammed into their heads !",
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"text": "Welcome, ye pitiful scrag-ends of the law!",
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"text": "Quint – which is what she calls the old scrag-end sitting in the vinyl-covered institutional armchair by the open window – does nothing.",
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"ref": "2014, Julius Falconer, Death by Aloe-Seed: A Country Parson’s Singular Tale, page 14",
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},
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},
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},
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"ref": "1967, John Boynton Priestley, Donald Gunn MacRae, The World of J. B. Priestley, page 112",
"text": "On our way back from Hebburn to Gateshead, which was a journey among the very scrag-ends of industrial life, we passed no less than three funerals, each of them with a long black tail to it.",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2011, Sara Stockbridge, The Fortunes of Grace Hammer: A Tale of the Victorian Underworld, page 156",
"text": "As if there wasn't enough sensation already for people disposed to such things, if not on their very doorsteps then surely a short ride away from their perfumed gardens to the scrag-end of their fair city.",
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},
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"ref": "2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, page 267",
"text": "Better to go over a cliff than to live out the scrag-end of your life in a place like this.",
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},
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"ref": "2014, Julius Falconer, Death by Aloe-Seed: A Country Parson’s Singular Tale, page 14",
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