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"ref": "1788, John Trusler, “Travels through Siberia and Tartary”, in The Habitable World Described, volume 3, London, page 181",
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"ref": "1937, J. R. R. Tolkien, chapter 7, in The Hobbit, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2012",
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"ref": "1996, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones",
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