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Then Tom stumbled on the hugest and softest nimblecomequick turnip you ever saw filling a hole in a crop of swedes, and it cried to him, “Can you tell me anything at all about anything you like?”
The Water Babies 2007
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Then Tom stumbled on the hugest and softest nimblecomequick turnip you ever saw filling a hole in a crop of swedes, and it cried to him, "Can you tell me anything at all about anything you like?"
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Then Tom stumbled on the hugest and softest nimblecomequick turnip you ever saw filling a hole in a crop of swedes, and it cried to him, "Can you tell me anything at all about anything you like?"
The Water-Babies Charles Kingsley 1847
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Then Tom stumbled on the hugest and softest nimblecomequick turnip you ever saw filling a hole in a crop of swedes, and it cried to him, "Can you tell me anything at all about anything you like?"
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847
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Obs. (nonce) adj., Rapidly-growing.
"The hugest and softest nimblecomequick turnip you ever saw."
– C. Kingsley, The Water-babies: a fairy-tale, 1863
September 5, 2008