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"ref": "1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial",
"text": "Sometimes, without any apparent cause, I sank, little by little, into a condition of semi-syncope, or half swoon; and, in this condition, without pain, without ability to stir, or, strictly speaking, to think, but with a dull lethargic consciousness of life and of the presence of those who surrounded my bed, I remained, until the crisis of the disease restored me, suddenly, to perfect sensation.",
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"ref": "1973, Patrick O'Brian, HMS Surprise",
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"ref": "1922, Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins",
"text": "She was a volatile creature, full of mischievous surprise: at their first music practice, after playing over some hymns on the pipe-organ, she burst into jazz, filling the quiet grove with the clamorous syncope of Paddy-Paws, a favourite song that summer.",
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