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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

“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.

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.

For the latter purpose a good cyclopedia of quotations, like the Hoyt, will be found very helpful.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin