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1853 A. H. CloughLet. 29 Aug. in Lett. & Rem. (1869) I. 211 The Commons are off grousewards, and scarcely any one remains to ask one to dinner or anything else.
1895 Daily Tel. 13 Aug. 5/4 He was certainly not ‘grouseward’ bent.
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