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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

Take a letter please, a cyclopedia of business and social correspondence. © 11Jun37; A106790.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1964 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

She had been to the "up-stairs room" during recess and brought down the cyclopedia, and, happily, had found a page and a half regarding Giunta Pisano therein, which she was copying verbatim.

From The Evolution of Dodd by Smith, William Hawley

And her cyclopedia article was probably as well written as most of its kind, so that a literal transcript of it could have done no harm either to the copyist or to her clubmates.

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