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"ref": "1865, Ouida [pseudonym; Marie Louise de la Ramée], “White Ladies”, in Strathmore: A Romance. … In Three Volumes, London: Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, OCLC 4557613; republished as Strathmore: A Romance. … In Two Volumes (Collection of British Authors; 1169), volume I, Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1871, OCLC 798495291, page 9",
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"ref": "2016, Gail Harland, Snowdrop (Botanical), London: Reaktion Books",
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"feminine"
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"sense": "plant",
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"sense": "plant",
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"sense": "plant",
"word": "galant"
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"feminine"
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"ref": "1989, Southerly: The Magazine of the Australian English Association, volume 49, Sydney: Australian English Association, →OCLC, page 561",
"text": "MS: There was a lot of snowdropping in those days? / SL: Oh, I've never actually stooped to snowdropping; I used to go into shops. Boosting, man, boosting. But you learn how to survive.",
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"ref": "1992, Peter O'Toole, Loitering with Intent: The Early Years, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion Books, page 50",
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{
"ref": "2011, Tony Hardy, “A Love Story”, in Fifteen Percent Pregnant: A Story of Life, and Love, and IVF, Docklands, Melbourne, Vic.: The Slattery Media Group, page 239",
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