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"ref": "1608, Thomas Dekker, The Belman of London, London: Nathaniell Butter",
"text": "Some sate turning of spits, and the place being all smoaky, made me thinke on hell, for the ioynts of meat lay as if they had bene broyling in the infernall fier […]",
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"ref": "1775, Samuel Jackson Pratt, “A Moral, and Sentimental Excursion”, in Liberal Opinions, upon Animals, Man, and Providence, volume 2, London: G. Robinson and J. Bew, page 143",
"text": "[…] even the smoky air of one of the most smoky streets of the suburbs is chearful, and salubrious, to the oppression I felt in the chamber we have just left […]",
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"text": "1819, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Peter Bell the Third,” Part 3, in The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, London: Edward Moxon, 1839, p. 240,\nHell is a city much like London—\nA populous and a smoky city;"
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"ref": "1930, Langston Hughes, chapter 20, in Not Without Laughter, New York: Scribner, published 1995, page 214",
"text": "“Say, little coon, let’s see you hit a step for the boys! […]”\n“I can’t,” Sandy said, frowning instead of smiling, and growing warm as he stood there in the smoky circle of grinning white men. “I don’t know how to dance.”",
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"text": "1894, George Santayana, Sonnet, in Sonnets and Other Verses, Cambridge, MA: Stone and Kimball, p. 5,\nOur knowledge is a torch of smoky pine\nThat lights the pathway but one step ahead\nAcross a void of mystery and dread."
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"text": "The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.",
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"ref": "1795, Ann Radcliffe, “Metz”, in A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, page 179",
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"ref": "2014, Janet Mock, Redefining Realness",
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"ref": "1990, Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World, New York: Picador, published 1998, Part 1, p. 84",
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"ref": "1854, Henry David Thoreau, “House-Warming”, in Walden, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 271",
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"ref": "1914, James Stephens, The Demi-Gods, London: Macmillan, Book 4, Chapter 34, p. 293",
"text": "And now the sky was a bright sea sown with islands; they shrank and crumbled and drifted away, islands no more, but a multitude of plumes and flakes and smoky wreaths hastily scudding, for the sun had lifted his tranquil eye on the heavens […]",
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"ref": "1834, William Harrison Ainsworth, chapter 5, in Rookwood, volume 3, London: Richard Bentley, page 298",
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"ref": "1973, Patrick White, chapter 10, in The Eye of the Storm, New York: Viking, page 506",
"text": "Father laughed his smoky laugh. […] The smoky laughter like a bridge between them over your head.",
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"ref": "1988, Don DeLillo, Libra, Penguin, published 1989, Part 1, 20 May, p. 124",
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"ref": "2003, Lionel Shriver, “March 3, 2001”, in We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail",
"text": "Frankly, I don’t think his smoky Armenian looks drew their attention so much as the languid elegance of his manner […]",
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"text": "1962, Philip Larkin, “Billie’s Golden Years,” The Daily Telegraph, 17 October, 1962, republished in All What Jazz: A Record Diary, 1961—1971, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985, p. 73,\n[…] the sombre and magnificent Davis fronts both his Quartet and Gil Evans’s orchestra, pouring out a succession of smoky and sonorous solos […]"
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"ref": "1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter 1, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 1",
"text": "The organ took on a dark, smoky sonority at evening service, and there was no doubt that the organ was adapting its normal sounds to accompany God’s own sepulchral responses […] to those prayers that were offered to him.",
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"ref": "1988, Douglas Adams, chapter 11, in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, London: Pan Books, published 1989, pages 90–91",
"text": "[…] there emerged from the car a pair of the sort of legs which soundtrack editors are unable to see without needing to slap a smoky saxophone solo all over […]",
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"ref": "1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Plume, published 1993, page 67",
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"text": "1594, Thomas Kyd (translator), Cornelia (Cornélie) by Robert Garnier, London: Nicholas Ling and John Busbie, Act V,\nHe wrencht it [his sword] to the pommel through his sides,\nThat fro the wound the smoky blood ran bubling,\nWhere-with he staggred;"
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"ref": "1717, “The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice”, in William Congreve, transl., Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books, translated by the most eminent hands, London: Jacob Tonson, page 334",
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"ref": "1534, Thomas More, The answere to the fyrst parte of the poysened booke, which a namelesse heretyke hath named the souper of the lorde, London: Preface",
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"ref": "1581, Walter Haddon et al., translated by James Bell, Against Ierome Osorius Byshopp of Siluane in Portingall, London: John Daye, Book 3",
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"ref": "1658, Richard Baxter, The Crucifying of the World by the Cross of Christ, London: Nevill Simmons, Preface",
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"text": "1765, Samuel Foote, The Commissary, Act I, in The Works of Samuel Foote, London: George Robinson et al., 1799, Volume 2, p. 18,\n[…] this old brother of ours tho’ is smoky and shrewd, and tho’ an odd, a sensible fellow;"
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"ref": "1988, Don DeLillo, Libra, Penguin, published 1989, Part 1, 20 May, p. 124",
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"ref": "2003, Lionel Shriver, “March 3, 2001”, in We Need to Talk About Kevin, London: Serpent’s Tail",
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"ref": "1981, Wole Soyinka, chapter 1, in Aké: The Years of Childhood, New York: Vintage, published 1983, page 1",
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"ref": "1988, Douglas Adams, chapter 11, in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, London: Pan Books, published 1989, pages 90–91",
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"ref": "1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, New York: Plume, published 1993, page 67",
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