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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

His “I’ll risk it” was a whole cyclopedia of condensed gallantry.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

The aim often seems to be—especially in such a subject as geography—to make the pupil what has been called a "cyclopedia of useless information."

From How We Think by Dewey, John

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