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"ref": "1900, George Manville Fenn, chapter 16, in The Lost Middy:",
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"ref": "1963, Sylvia Plath, chapter 14, in The Bell Jar, London: Faber & Faber, published 1971:",
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"ref": "2012, John Sweeney, ‘At War with Ceausescu’, Literary Review, number 399:",
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"ref": "2020 January 6, Joe Murtagh, Colin Barrett, 01:18:44 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Hector (David Wilmott):",
"text": "MAIRE MIRKIN (played by Brid Brennan):”Sit down please the both of you. You’ve intruded right into the middle of our nightcap, young man. I was just about to serve a toddy to Hector and myself. Can I fix you one?”. ARM (played by Cosmo Jarvis): A wha…? HECTOR: Do, dear, yeah. And, um (clicks tongue) cut us a few wodges of brack while you’re at it.",
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