The 1,273 occurrences of knocked up

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fatigued, tired &c. v.; weary &c. 841; drowsy &c. 683; drooping &c. v.; haggard; toilworn[obs3], wayworn; footsore, surbated|, weather- beaten; faint; done up, used up, knocked up; bushed * [U.S.]; exhausted, prostrate, spent; overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed[obs3], unrestored.

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At the end of the twelve-hundredth visit they were pretty well knocked up.

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At the end of the twelve-hundredth visit they were pretty well knocked up.

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I seem to have knocked up against something hard.

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The seconds cried "Halt!" and knocked up the combatants' swords with their own.

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"If Fanny would be more regular in her exercise, she would not be knocked up so soon.

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This will be a bad day's amusement for you if you are to be knocked up.

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"Poor Fanny!" cried William, coming for a moment to visit her, and working away his partner's fan as if for life, "how soon she is knocked up!

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Fanny was beginning to feel the effect of being debarred from her usual regular exercise; she had lost ground as to health since her being in Portsmouth; and but for Mr. Crawford and the beauty of the weather would soon have been knocked up now.

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The first division of their journey occupied a long day, and brought them, almost knocked up, to Oxford; but the second was over at a much earlier hour.

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I'll tell them at the stoneworks that you are knocked up."

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It might be a very indifferent piece of wit, but Emma found a great deal to laugh at and enjoy in it-and so did Frank and Harriet.-It did not seem to touch the rest of the party equally; some looked very stupid about it, and Mr. Knightley gravely said, "This explains the sort of clever thing that is wanted, and Mr. Weston has done very well for himself; but he must have knocked up every body else.

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In the middle of that night Lord Glengyle was knocked up out of his bed--for he lived alone--and forced to open the door to the deaf idiot.

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But even he felt a pang of incongruity when he was knocked up at daybreak and told that Sir Aaron Armstrong had been murdered.

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"We were rather knocked up, but we feel wonderfully better.

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[Dec. -- 1887] Ben Duggan Jack Denver died on Talbragar when Christmas Eve began, [Dec. -- 1891] The Star of Australasia We boast no more of our bloodless flag, that rose from a nation's slime; The Great Grey Plain Out West, where the stars are brightest, [Sept. -- 1893] The Song of Old Joe Swallow When I was up the country in the rough and early days, [May -- 1890] Corny Bill His old clay pipe stuck in his mouth, [May -- 1892] Cherry-Tree Inn The rafters are open to sun, moon, and star, Up the Country I am back from up the country -- very sorry that I went -- [July -- 1892] Knocked Up I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought, [Aug. -- 1893] The Blue Mountains Above the ashes straight and tall, [Dec. -- 1888] The City Bushman It was pleasant up the country, City Bushman, where you went, [Aug. -- 1892] Eurunderee There are scenes in the distance where beauty is not, [Aug. -- 1891] Mount Bukaroo Only one old post is standing -- [Dec. -- 1889] The Fire at Ross's Farm The squatter saw his pastures wide [Apr.

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Knocked Up I'm lyin' on the barren ground that's baked and cracked with drought, And dunno if my legs or back or heart is most wore out; I've got no spirits left to rise and smooth me achin' brow -- I'm too knocked up to light a fire and bile the billy now.

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The sinews in my legs seem drawn, red-hot -- 'n that's the truth; I seem to weigh a ton, and ache like one tremendous tooth; I'm stung between my shoulder-blades -- my blessed back seems broke; I'm too knocked out to eat a bite -- I'm too knocked up to smoke.

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I seem to have knocked up against something hard.

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"You LOOK knocked up," asserted the other.

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Then they knocked up a little place for him at the bottom of the garden, about quarter of a mile from the house, and made him take the machine down there when he wanted to work it; and sometimes a visitor would come to the house who knew nothing of the matter, and they would forget to tell him all about it, and caution him, and he would go out for a stroll round the garden and suddenly get within earshot of those bagpipes, without being prepared for it, or knowing what it was.

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He wore a good service stripe upon his cheek, for on one side it was pitted and scarred where a spurt of gravel knocked up by a round-shot had struck him thirty years before, when he served in the Lancaster gun-battery.

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Then I knocked up old Macewen out of bed, and explained affairs to him as he sat and shivered in a dressing-gown.

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"Come, young woman, come in," he said, "and have adrop o' something; you're pretty well knocked up, I can see that."

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Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah "knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected".

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- From this day to the 20th I placed shelves, and knocked up nails on the posts, to hang everything up that could be hung up; and now I began to be in some order within doors.

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At about two in the morning of the 19th after a slow and icy journey she arrived at the inn, knocked up the aged servants, made herself a cup of chocolate out of her tea-basket and sat down to wait on my coming.

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The travellers give me the name on account of my getting no settled sleep and being knocked up all night; whereby I gets one eye roused open afore I've shut the other.

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'Do you want your head knocked up against that wall, sir?

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A rough hoarding of boards had been knocked up before the vestry doorway.

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Symonds overworked and knocked up.

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Meanwhile, we three being thoroughly knocked up with our day's work, took a good draught of cocoa-nut lemonade, and throwing ourselves on our beds fell fast asleep.

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(b) To beat or tire out; to fatigue till unable to do more; as, the men were entirely knocked up .

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"The day being exceedingly hot, the want of food had knocked up my followers."

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Being by this time nearly tired of sleeping upon shelves, we had remained awake to go ashore straightway; and groping a passage across the dark decks of other boats, and among labyrinths of engine-machinery and leaking casks of molasses, we reached the streets, knocked up the porter at the hotel where we had stayed before, and were, to our great joy, safely housed soon afterwards.

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We did not stir, and she went into the dining-room, but the dining-room door was locked and the key taken away, for it opens directly into the passage, and then she knocked up against Mother's sofa and that woke her up.

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I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.

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She said he had only been twice, on horseback, accompanying his father; and both times he pretended to be quite knocked up for three or four days afterwards.

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It is sickening when people turn pale in the middle of a game and everything is spoiled, and you have to go home, and tell the spoiler how sorry you are that he is knocked up, and pretend not to mind about the game being spoiled.

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All the boys too (Toots excepted) seemed knocked up, and were getting ready for dinner-some newly tying their neckcloths, which were very stiff indeed; and others washing their hands or brushing their hair, in an adjoining ante-chamber-as if they didn't think they should enjoy it at all.

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On these occasions, Mrs MacStinger was knocked up by the policeman at a quarter before three in the morning, and rarely such before twelve o'clock next night.

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For numbers were knocked up every night by agues, fluxes, and other maladies, brought on by excessive fatigue and lack of food.

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Even if I could have the bandy-legged baby knocked up and brought here, I could offer him nothing but sherry, and that would be the death of him.

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Then we fancied that Dr. Dawson, the surgeon, &c., who displays a large lamp with a different colour in every pane of glass, at the corner of the row, began to be knocked up at night oftener than he used to be; and once we were very much alarmed by hearing a hackney-coach stop at Mrs. Robinson's door, at half-past two o'clock in the morning, out of which there emerged a fat old woman, in a cloak and night-cap, with a bundle in one hand, and a pair of pattens in the other, who looked as if she had been suddenly knocked up out of bed for some very special purpose.

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He is an excellent authority on points of precedent, and when he grows talkative, after his wine, will tell you how Sir Somebody Something, when he was whipper-in for the Government, brought four men out of their beds to vote in the majority, three of whom died on their way home again; how the House once divided on the question, that fresh candles be now brought in; how the Speaker was once upon a time left in the chair by accident, at the conclusion of business, and was obliged to sit in the House by himself for three hours, till some Member could be knocked up and brought back again, to move the adjournment; and a great many other anecdotes of a similar description.

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A noise, as of shuffling of feet, and men being knocked up with violence against wainscoting, was heard: a hurried dialogue of 'Come out?

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"Ah you'll probably fail; my wife's always out--or when she isn't out is knocked up from having been out.

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"Yes, she died, but she suffered for a long time, and we were fairly knocked up with her, I can tell you.

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Haven't you sleep enough, growler, that you're not to be knocked up for once?' said John.

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In the afternoon one of the horses knocked up: we were then on a brow of a hill, which commanded a fine view of the Llanos.

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For Mr Pancks had knocked up the house and made his way in, very early in the morning; and, without once sitting down or standing still, had delivered himself of the whole of his details (illustrated with a variety of documents) at the bedside.

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Noggs gave vent to his usual grunt, as much as to say 'I thought so!' and, the ring being repeated, went to the door, whence he presently returned, ushering in, by the name of Mr Bonney, a pale gentleman in a violent hurry, who, with his hair standing up in great disorder all over his head, and a very narrow white cravat tied loosely round his throat, looked as if he had been knocked up in the night and had not dressed himself since.

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Others, again, knocked up against their neighbours, or leant for support against the wall-somewhat ostentatiously, as if to call all men to witness that they were not worth the taking.

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'I wish you would pull off my boots for me,' said Martin, dropping into one of the chairs 'I am quite knocked up-dead beat, Mark.'

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Mrs Gamp went home to the bird-fancier's, and was knocked up again that very night for a birth of twins; Mr Mould dined gayly in the bosom of his family, and passed the evening facetiously at his club; the hearse, after standing for a long time at the door of a roistering public-house, repaired to its stables with the feathers inside and twelve red-nosed undertakers on the roof, each holding on by a dingy peg, to which, in times of state, a waving plume was fitted; the various trappings of sorrow were carefully laid by in presses for the next hirer; the fiery steeds were quenched and quiet in their stalls; the doctor got merry with wine at a wedding-dinner, and forgot the middle of the story which had no end to it; the pageant of a few short hours ago was written nowhere half so legibly as in the undertaker's books.

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I've been knocked up at all hours of the night, and warned out by a many landlords, in consequence of being mistook for Fire.

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They straggle about in wrong places, look at wrong things, don't care for the right things, gape when more rooms are opened, exhibit profound depression of spirits, and are clearly knocked up.

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An' Fuller's arm was knocked up.

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She did look knocked up.

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We could only travel in the mornings and evenings, as a single day in the hot sun and heavy sand would have knocked up the oxen.

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Fleming had until this time always assisted to drive his own wagon, but about the end of March he knocked up, as well as his people.

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The precipitous nature of the sides of this mass of hills knocked up the oxen and forced us to slaughter two, one of which, a very large one, and ornamented with upward of thirty pieces of its own skin detached and hanging down, Sekeletu had wished us to take to the white people as a specimen of his cattle.

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Tsetse and the hills had destroyed two riding oxen, and when the little one that I now rode knocked up, I was forced to march on foot.

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A pine table was found for the small hall, which was to be our dinning-room, and some chairs with raw-hide seats were brought from the barracks, some shelves knocked up against one wall, to serve as sideboard.

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"The child, lying very flushed in a miserable cot knocked up out of gin-cases, stared at Davidson with wide, drowsy eyes.

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The bells did not ring; men lounged about everywhere and at every moment knocked up against one another.

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Receiving reassuring news of the royal slumbers, he proceeded to the quarters of the king's body-servant, knocked up the sleepy wretch, and ordered breakfast for the king and the Count of Luzau-Rischenheim at nine o'clock precisely, in the morning-room that looked out over the avenue leading to the entrance to the new chateau.

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Their horses were pretty well knocked up.

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We had a clear two hours' start of the police, and their horses were pretty well knocked up by the pace they'd come home at, so they weren't likely to overhaul us easy.

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Hardy as he was, no horse could stand that altogether; so we kept him under shelter in a roughish kind of a loose box we had knocked up, and fed him on bush hay.

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Next day, late, they rode in with their horses regularly done and knocked up, leading his horse, but no Warrigal.

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He was done up at last; he slowed down till he couldn't waddle, and then, when he was thoroughly knocked up, that game-rooster turned on him, and gave him the father of a hiding.

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I saw them go while I was sweeping the stairs; Father Goriot knocked up against me, and his parcel was as hard as iron.

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When the renegade reached toward him Joe knocked up the hand, and, instead of striking, he grasped the hooked nose with all the powerful grip of his fingers.

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"No, I knocked up his gun as he fired," explained Mr. Jenks.

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On the first night, I was knocked up by Jack with a most wonderful ship's lantern in his hand, like the gills of some monster of the deep, who informed me that he "was going aloft to the main truck," to have the weathercock down.

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'Sbud, a man had as good be a professed midwife as a professed whoremaster, at this rate; to be knocked up and raised at all hours, and in all places.

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I would rather have been the Captain of their football club, even his deputy Vice; would have given all my meed of laughter for stuttering Jerry's one round of applause when in our match against Highbury he knocked up his century, and so won the victory for us by just three.

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I wanted him to take a good place at the Ecole Polytechnique and to see him graduate there with credit, so of late I have had him drilled in mathematics to such good purpose that the poor little soul has been knocked up by it.

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Fontenelle and his party had not fared much better; the chief part had managed to reach the river by nightfall, but were nearly knocked up by the exertion; the horses of others sank under them, and they were obliged to pass the night upon the road.

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As the much-vaunted steed, once the joy and pride of this interesting family, was now nearly knocked up by travelling, and totally inadequate to the mountain scramble that lay ahead, Captain Bonneville restored him to the venerable patriarch, with renewed acknowledgments for the invaluable gift.

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The story and a half of which it consists had been knocked up cheaply, by carpenters I should say rather than masons, and the general effect is of a brightly coloured van that has stuck for ever on its way through the passage.

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He must have had a tiresome journey of it, for Mr. Wopsle, being knocked up, was in such a very bad temper that if the Church had been thrown open, he would probably have excommunicated the whole expedition, beginning with Joe and myself.

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As for Romer, he never woke till we pushed him hard, he was so completely knocked up.

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I am a neat hand at cookery, and I'll tell you what I knocked up for my Christmas-eve dinner in the Library Cart.

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I knocked up a beefsteak-pudding for one, with two kidneys, a dozen oysters, and a couple of mushrooms thrown in.

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The legend "Barbox Brothers," in large white letters on two black surfaces, was very soon afterwards trundling on a truck through a silent street, and, when the owner of the legend had shivered on the pavement half an hour, what time the porter's knocks at the Inn Door knocked up the whole town first, and the Inn last, he groped his way into the close air of a shut-up house, and so groped between the sheets of a shut-up bed that seemed to have been expressly refrigerated for him when last made.

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"Anything but a blessing to the rest of the house," rejoined Vendale, "if I had to be knocked up in the morning from the outside of my bedroom door."

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"Knocked up, eh?" said the Colonial, glancing kindly up at him.

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One day coming to a little town, his horses knocked up, and he resolved to rest them there.

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So the game of life proceeds, until Jerry Hawthorn, the rustic, is fairly knocked up by all this excitement and is forced to go home, and the last picture represents him getting into the coach at the "White Horse Cellar," he being one of six inside; whilst his friends shake him by the hand; whilst the sailor mounts on the roof; whilst the Jews hang round with oranges, knives, and sealing-wax: whilst the guard is closing the door.

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I knocked up, with my own hatchet and saw, a sitting-table which I meant to have permanent in the middle of the room, which was much more convenient than anything I could buy or carry.

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Here I am, on top of a dirty thirty miles, as knocked up and stiff and sore as a pink-tea degenerate after a five-mile walk on a country turn-pike.

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Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you."

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I've no doubt you've often knocked up against us before.

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I have knocked up the none too amiable host.

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I am so tired mit der blaying all night, dat dis morning I am all knocked up."

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