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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

"That's why I'm such a cyclopedia of accurate information, ma'am," Roger retorted.

From Ethel Morton's Enterprise by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)

It is the cyclopedia on cards long advocated by Dr. Dewey, except that the cards are in its catalogue and do not contain the information directly but serve only as keys to it.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

“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.