See ofer on Wiktionary
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"english": "And now I gave you power to tread over adders and snakes and over each fiends' force. And no thing harms you.",
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"text": "late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies\nNys nāht ofor hyne...",
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"english": "He hath set His token upon my face that I should love none other beside Him.",
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"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Basilius, Bishop\"\nBide nu æt gode þæt ic grecisc cunne. Þa cwæþ se biscop him to, þu bæde ofer mine mæðe ac uton swa þeah biddan þas bena æt gode.",
"translation": "Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Then said the Bishop to him, 'Thou hast asked beyond my power, but let us, nevertheless, ask this boon of God.'",
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"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Prayer of Moses (Mid-Lent)\"\nSwa swa sume menn doð þe dyslice fæstað ofer heora mihte on gemænelicum lenctene, swa swa we sylfe gesawon oðþæt hi seoce wurdon.",
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"text": "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\nAn. DCCCC.LXXVII Hēr wæs þæt myċċle ġemōt æt Kyrtlingtūne ofer Ēastron, ⁊ þǣr forðferde Sidemann bisċeop, on hrǣdlīċan dēaþe on II Kƚ. Mai. Sē wæs Defnasċire bisċeop ⁊ hē wilnode þæt his līcrǣst sċeode bēon æt Cridiantūne æt his bisċeopstōle.",
"translation": "Year 977 In this year there was a great assembly after Easter at Kirtlington. There passed away Bishop Sideman, with a swift death on the calends of March. He was bishop of Devonshire, and he desired that his resting place should be at his palace in Crediton.",
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"roman": "And nū ic sealde ēow ānweald tō tredenne ofer nǣddran. And snacan and ofer ǣlc fēondes mæġen. And nān þing ēow ne derað...",
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"english": "Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Then said the Bishop to him, 'Thou hast asked beyond my power, but let us, nevertheless, ask this boon of God.'",
"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"Saint Basilius, Bishop\"\nBide nu æt gode þæt ic grecisc cunne. Þa cwæþ se biscop him to, þu bæde ofer mine mæðe ac uton swa þeah biddan þas bena æt gode.",
"translation": "Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Pray now to God that I may know Greek. Then said the Bishop to him, 'Thou hast asked beyond my power, but let us, nevertheless, ask this boon of God.'",
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"text": "late 10th century, Ælfric, \"The Prayer of Moses (Mid-Lent)\"\nSwa swa sume menn doð þe dyslice fæstað ofer heora mihte on gemænelicum lenctene, swa swa we sylfe gesawon oðþæt hi seoce wurdon.",
"translation": "Even as some men do who foolishly fast beyond their strength in the catholic Lent, even as we ourselves have seen, until they have fallen sick.",
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"text": "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle\nAn. DCCCC.LXXVII Hēr wæs þæt myċċle ġemōt æt Kyrtlingtūne ofer Ēastron, ⁊ þǣr forðferde Sidemann bisċeop, on hrǣdlīċan dēaþe on II Kƚ. Mai. Sē wæs Defnasċire bisċeop ⁊ hē wilnode þæt his līcrǣst sċeode bēon æt Cridiantūne æt his bisċeopstōle.",
"translation": "Year 977 In this year there was a great assembly after Easter at Kirtlington. There passed away Bishop Sideman, with a swift death on the calends of March. He was bishop of Devonshire, and he desired that his resting place should be at his palace in Crediton.",
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