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"text": "1858, George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, Edinburgh: William Blackwood, Volume 2, “Janet’s Repentance,” Chapter 3, p. 87,\nher cheeks, which, on Whitsunday, loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work, were, on Trinity Sunday, seen reposing in distinct red outline on her shelving bust, like the sun on a fog-bank"
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"sense": "sloping steeply",
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"ref": "1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 35, in Martin Chuzzlewit, page 412",
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"ref": "1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 29, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 276",
"text": "dry light sand, blown from higher shelvings, striped the dark wet edges of the shore",
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"ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: The Modern Library, Part 2, Chapter 24, p. 345",
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},
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},
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},
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"ref": "1844, Charles Dickens, chapter 35, in Martin Chuzzlewit, page 412",
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"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 29, in Bertram Cope’s Year, Chicago: R.F. Seymour, page 276",
"text": "dry light sand, blown from higher shelvings, striped the dark wet edges of the shore",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: The Modern Library, Part 2, Chapter 24, p. 345",
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