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"text": "The decks are afloat.",
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"text": "1695, Edmund Gibson (translator), Camden’s Britannia, London: A. Swalle, “Staffordshire,”\n[…] it [the River Dove] overflows and lays the meadows afloat in April, like another Nile"
},
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"ref": "1938, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, chapter 19, in The Yearling, New York: Scribner, page 233",
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"word": "flooded"
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"ref": "1911, D. H. Lawrence, The White Peacock, London: Heinemann, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 233",
"text": "The larch-wood was afloat with clear, lyric green,",
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},
{
"ref": "1935, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Mistress Pat, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, published 1937, page 100",
"text": "The world was afloat in primrose light, pale and exquisite.",
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},
{
"ref": "1979, Bernard Malamud, Dubin’s Lives, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, Part 1, p. 51",
"text": "The lobby was afloat with men, single and married, meeting pretty women in bright dresses and pants suits, single and married.",
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"word": "bankrupt"
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{
"word": "insolvent"
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"text": "The donation will keep our business afloat for quite a while.",
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{
"ref": "1549, Miles Coverdale, transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the New Testament, London: Edward Whitchurche, Volume 2, Philippians 4",
"text": "[…] you nede not to be sorye, as thoughe your frendely liberalitie had not be very acceptable vnto me. I haue receaued euery thing, and now I am afloate, by your lyberall sendyng.",
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"ref": "1753, Tobias Smollett, chapter 54, in The Adventures of Ferdinand, Count Fathom, Edinburgh: Mundell & Son, published 1800, pages 306–307",
"text": "He […] endeavoured, by forcing himself into a lower path of life than any he had hitherto trod, to keep himself afloat, with the portion of some tradesman’s daughter, whom he meant to espouse.",
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{
"ref": "1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 191",
"text": "They somehow manage to keep \"afloat,\" so as to obtain the needful funds to pay their passages and to purchase, tools and rations.",
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{
"ref": "2010, Nadifa Mohamed, Black Mamba Boy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 67",
"text": "The clan handouts that kept other Somalis afloat were absent here, as the Yibros were so few and so poor.",
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"word": "on one's feet"
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"ref": "1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicles, volume 3, Edward I, page 298",
"text": "setting a lie aflote",
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},
{
"ref": "1757, William Burke, Edmund Burke, An Account of the European Settlements in America, London: R. and J. Dodsley, Volume 2, Part 7, Chapter 4, p. 150",
"text": "[…] as this example set the discourse about witchcraft afloat, some people, troubled with a similar complaint, began to fancy themselves bewitched too.",
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},
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"ref": "1878, Thomas Hardy, chapter 5, in The Return of the Native, volume 2, London: Smith, Elder, page 163",
"text": "[…] I shall not be judged fairly; it will get afloat that I am not a good girl,",
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{
"ref": "1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London: Chapman & Hall, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 243",
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"ref": "1769, Elizabeth Griffith, The School for Rakes, London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, Epilogue, page 92",
"text": "You’ll find, when once my passion is afloat, / The soul of Caesar, in a petticoat!",
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},
{
"ref": "1794, Thomas Holcroft, chapter 6, in The Adventures of Hugh Trevor, volume 1, London: Shepperson and Reynolds, page 46",
"text": "My half frozen blood and my fears again afloat made me tremble through every limb;",
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{
"ref": "1821, William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, London: John Warren, Essay 1, page 3",
"text": "No angry passions rise to disturb the silent progress of the work, […] no irritable humours are set afloat:",
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"text": "1789, Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield dated August 1789, in Miscellaneous Works, London: A. Strahan et al., 1796, p. 201,\nI know not what to say; my mind is all afloat; yet you will not reproach me with caprice or inconstancy."
},
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"ref": "1878, John Berwick Harwood, chapter 17, in Helena Lady Harrogate,, volume 1, London: Richard Bentley, page 312",
"text": "[…] they knew how to abstain from the overdose of liquor that sets the brain afloat and loosens the tongue.",
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"ref": "1887, Harry Castlemon, chapter 1, in Our Fellows, Philadelphia: John C. Winston, page 10",
"text": "[…] he could correctly analyze and parse any sentence you could give him, no matter how complex; but when it came to talking he was all afloat.",
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "pluvašt",
"sense": "floating",
"word": "плуващ"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "floating",
"word": "浮着地"
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"word": "pinnalla"
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"word": "flotante"
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"word": "пла́вающий"
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"sense": "at sea",
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "на воде́"
}
],
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}
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"text": "early 1600s, John Webster and William Rowley, The Thracian Wonder, London: Thomas Johnson, 1661, Act I, Scene 1,\nBut Huswife, as for you, / You with your Brat, wee’l send afloat the Main,"
},
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"ref": "1642, Robert Cotton, The Troublesome Life and Raigne of King Henry the Third, London: George Lindsey, page 5",
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