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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

The best are The World Book En cyclopedia, which has dominated the grade-school market in recent years, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

He would have liked to read all the books in the library—but he started in on a cyclopedia.

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