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He is concerned, he says, to complete “a cyclopedia of the industry, the want, and the vice of the great metropolis”.

From The Guardian • May 8, 2017

"I can put anything to music, including the en cyclopedia," he once remarked, with an engaging lack of diffidence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The magazines fulfil the same function; every one of them is a penny cyclopedia.

From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay

“Oh, no; this will be quite sufficient,” and taking out pencil and paper the inquirer began to write rapidly with the cyclopedia propped before her.

From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Bostwick, Arthur E.

But he soon found question after question to ask that the cyclopedia did not answer.

From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Whipple, Wayne