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"sense": "blowing in loud and abrupt bursts",
"word": "tarakaka"
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"sense": "blowing in loud and abrupt bursts",
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"sense": "blowing in loud and abrupt bursts",
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"text": "In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxicab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square.",
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"ref": "1989, Shashi Tharoor, chapter 22, in The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade, published 2011",
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},
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"text": "[…] blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron.",
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},
{
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"text": "In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxicab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square.",
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},
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},
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},
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"text": "Vayu was a large, strong, blustery character, full of drive and energy but mercurial in temperament.",
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"word": "luidruchtig"
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"word": "böig"
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