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"ref": "1888 June 25, The Railroad Brakeman's Journal, volume 5, number 6, page 266",
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"ref": "1906 November 25, The Railway Clerk, volume 5, number 11, page 460",
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"ref": "1963, Garet Rogers, Scandal in Eden, a novel.",
"text": "\"You're not pregnant again?\" he inquired chattily. \"God, no. Fritzie shot his wad.\" \"Quite a wad,\" Mark approved.",
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"ref": "1985 May 26, Richard Witkin, “Pilots and United halt talks seeking strike's end”, in New York Times, retrieved 2013-08-21",
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"ref": "1993, Steve Martini, Compelling Evidence",
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"ref": "2004, Stephen Goodwin, Breaking Her Fall, page 179",
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"ref": "1974, Sam Savoy, Hot and hard",
"text": "However, Mike had shot his wad into the mouth of the man whose body was now jammed back against his and he began jacking the throbbing cock faster and harder!",
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"ref": "2003, Harlyn Aizley, Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, page 70",
"text": "It's a strange thing this yellow liquid, the bodily fluid of a stranger. What was he thinking when he shot his wad? Is he somewhere now wondering about his sperm? Is he at this very moment wondering if a woman somewhere is inseminating with his seed? Well, we are! Here we are in Boston, and we are!",
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"ref": "2008, Chaucer Malone, Miguk, the Holy Man, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 490",
"text": "Grabbing hold of his throbbing organ, he started to turn away from her, had second thoughts, and proceeded to shoot his wad, ejaculate all over the sweating, sultry body that was stretched out, languishing at his feet.",
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"ref": "2010, Simon Sheppard, Sodomy!: Stories, Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, page 62",
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"ref": "1963, Garet Rogers, Scandal in Eden, a novel.",
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2004, Stephen Goodwin, Breaking Her Fall, page 179",
"text": "I have a special fondness for all late summer bloomers since so many gardens, and all the fancy perennial gardens, have shot their wad by then.",
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"text": "However, Mike had shot his wad into the mouth of the man whose body was now jammed back against his and he began jacking the throbbing cock faster and harder!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2003, Harlyn Aizley, Buying Dad: One Woman's Search for the Perfect Sperm Donor, Los Angeles, Calif.: Alyson Books, page 70",
"text": "It's a strange thing this yellow liquid, the bodily fluid of a stranger. What was he thinking when he shot his wad? Is he somewhere now wondering about his sperm? Is he at this very moment wondering if a woman somewhere is inseminating with his seed? Well, we are! Here we are in Boston, and we are!",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Chaucer Malone, Miguk, the Holy Man, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, page 490",
"text": "Grabbing hold of his throbbing organ, he started to turn away from her, had second thoughts, and proceeded to shoot his wad, ejaculate all over the sweating, sultry body that was stretched out, languishing at his feet.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2010, Simon Sheppard, Sodomy!: Stories, Maple Shade, N.J.: Lethe Press, page 62",
"text": "[W]henever a particularly delectable wrestler got tossed across the ring, landing with a meaty thump, his dick would swell and tingle and he'd nearly shoot his wad.",
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