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The triple-bob-major was ended, and the ringers wiped their faces and rolled down their shirt-sleeves, previously to tucking away the ropes and leaving the place for the night.
Desperate Remedies Thomas Hardy 1884
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Thus incited, the survivors staggered to their feet; and hammering away at each others 'sconces, till they rung like a chime of bells going off with a triple-bob-major, they finally succeeded in immortalizing themselves by quenching their mortalities all round; the bards still singing.
Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) Herman Melville 1855
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