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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)

He took a humorous delight in mystifying the public with recondite allusions, sending everyone to the dictionary to look out "Byzantine logothete," and to the Bible and cyclopedia to find Armageddon.

From Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

The new Champlin cyclopedia for young folks, edited by Lincoln MacVeagh. © 27Oct24, A807635.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1952 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office