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"ref": "2004, Bennett Foster, Gila City, page 147",
"text": "\"You wouldn't last thirty minutes if I wasn't behind you,\" Dandy Bob snapped. \"Somebody would stop your clock, only they're afraid of me.\"",
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"ref": "2005, Ralph Compton, Bullet Creek",
"text": "Navarro aimed his cocked Colt at Homer Winters's fear-etched face. “Come and pick him up before I stop his clock.”",
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"ref": "2016, Smiley Bonds, The People’s Hope",
"text": "I cannot let it stop my clock, I'm far from the end of my road.",
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"ref": "1936, Vincent McHugh, Caleb Catlum's America, page 23",
"text": "Mom wasn't in no mood for lallygagging and she give him a look that stopped his clock.",
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"ref": "1981, James Barnett, The Firing Squad, page 206",
"text": "Somebody who played a grim little war-game with him; not wanting to kill him, only to kill time, to stop his clock for a couple of hours.",
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"ref": "2011, Derek Robinson, Hullo Russia, Goodbye England",
"text": "“He wasn't going to change his tune,” Tucker said. “So I stopped his clock. Now he knows not to bugger us about.”",
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"ref": "2022, Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead",
"text": "Those words, from her mouth, stopped my clock.",
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"ref": "2015, Andy Soltis, Chess Lists, page 11",
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"ref": "2016, Smiley Bonds, The People’s Hope",
"text": "I cannot let it stop my clock, I'm far from the end of my road.",
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},
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"ref": "1981, James Barnett, The Firing Squad, page 206",
"text": "Somebody who played a grim little war-game with him; not wanting to kill him, only to kill time, to stop his clock for a couple of hours.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Derek Robinson, Hullo Russia, Goodbye England",
"text": "“He wasn't going to change his tune,” Tucker said. “So I stopped his clock. Now he knows not to bugger us about.”",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "2022, Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead",
"text": "Those words, from her mouth, stopped my clock.",
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