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"ref": "1896, A. E. Housman, “To An Athlete Dying Young,”, in A Shropshire Lad",
"text": "Smart lad to slip betimes away\nFrom fields where glory does not stay.",
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"(dated) In good season or time; early, especially in the morning; seasonably."
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"ref": "1898, The High History of the Holy Graal, translated by Sebastian Evans, Branch IX, Title II",
"text": "[O]ne prayed God right heartily aloud that He would send them betimes a knight that durst convoy them through this strait pass."
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"sense": "in good season or time",
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"word": "своевременно"
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "vara"
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "aikaisin"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "pian"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "beizeiten"
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"code": "sga",
"lang": "Old Irish",
"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "moch"
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "zawczasu"
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "moch"
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"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "al alba"
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "tidigt"
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "erken"
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "erkenden"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "vaktinde"
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "in good season or time",
"word": "zamanında"
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