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]
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"ref": "1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] a rickety verdigrised geyser which would spit two inches of tepid water into the bath and then mulishly stop working.\"",
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "stubborn",
"word": "stur"
},
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"word": "stubborn as a mule"
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "stubborn",
"word": "stur"
},
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}
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