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"ref": "1712, A. Hill, chapter 9, in The Book of Ecclesiastes Paraphrased. A Divine Poem., Newcastle upon Tyne: J. White, page 38:",
"text": "He falls into it, who has digg'd a Pit.\nWho breaks a Hedge is with a Serpent bit.",
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"ref": "1879, Charles H. Eden, chapter III, in Ula, in Veldt and Laager: A Tale of the Zulus., copyright edition, Hamburg: Karl Grädener, page 45:",
"text": "Coiled up behind the shrub, […] was a green imamba, the most dreaded of all South African serpents.",
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"ref": "1946 October, Archibald Rutledge, “Along Nature's Trail”, in Boys' Life, volume 36, number 10, Boy Scouts of America, Inc., →ISSN, page 40:",
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"tags": [
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