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"ref": "1799, The Lady’s Magazine, volume 30, page 525:",
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"ref": "1848, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 16, in Mary Barton, volume 1, London: Chapman and Hall, page 286:",
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"text": "1871, David Livingstone, journal entry dated 11 February, 1871, in Horace Waller (ed.), The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, London: John Murray, 1874, Volume 2, Chapter 4, p. 99,\nMen struck work for higher wages: I consented to give them six dollars a month if they behaved well; if ill I diminish it, so we hope to start to-morrow."
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"ref": "2017 March 16, “Patients left in lurch as doctors continue strike”, in The New Indian Express:",
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"ref": "1871, James Russell Lowell, “My Garden Acquaintance”, in My Study Windows, Boston: James R. Osgood, page 6:",
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"ref": "1877, Richard A. Proctor, chapter 6, in Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 182:",
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"ref": "1885, Clinton Dent, chapter 1, in Above the Snow Line, London: Longmans, Green, page 9:",
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"ref": "1937, George Orwell, chapter 2, in The Road to Wigan Pier, New York: Harcourt, Brace, published 1958, page 27:",
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},
{
"ref": "1877, Richard A. Proctor, chapter 6, in Myths and Marvels of Astronomy, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, page 182:",
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},
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"ref": "1885, Clinton Dent, chapter 1, in Above the Snow Line, London: Longmans, Green, page 9:",
"text": "Many of the smaller brooks had struck work altogether, while the main river was reduced to a clear stream trickling lazily down between sloping banks of rounded white boulders […]",
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},
{
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