See taking in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1900, Joseph Conrad, chapter 27, in Lord Jim, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood, page 290:",
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"ref": "2010, Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements, page 75:",
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"ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, vol. 2, ch. 16, p. 321:",
"text": "\"[...] at last, he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird. He might have stuck a knife into her neck, she started round in such a taking.\n\"'Get away, this moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?' she cried, in a tone of disgust. [...]",
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"ref": "1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 30, in Far from the Madding Crowd:",
"text": "“And, dear miss, you won’t harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o’ your takings.”",
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"ref": "1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 102:",
"text": "‘Poor soul - she was quite in a taking. You see, she’d opened the door to the next compartment by mistake.’",
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"ref": "1970, Mary Stewart, The Crystal Cave, New York: Fawcett Crest, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 26:",
"text": "“[...] there’ll be a beating for someone, by my reckoning, if he’s not there by the time the King’s looking round for him. He’s been in a rare taking since the outriders came in, that I can tell you.”",
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"ref": "1929, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in A Room of One’s Own, London: The Hogarth Press, published 1931, page 60:",
"text": "[...] the woman who keeps the greengrocer’s shop was adding up the day’s takings with her hands in red mittens.",
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"ref": "1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Last of the M.S.W.J.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 586:",
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"ref": "1995, Rohinton Mistry, chapter 12, in A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, pages 554–555:",
"text": "The child was not returned to the mother. [...] strangers giving him suck found it easier to display the utter despair in their faces that made for successful begging, whereas if [the mother] had had the pleasure of clasping her little son to her bosom all day, it would have been impossible to keep a spark of joy, however tiny, out of her eyes, which would have adversely affected the takings.",
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