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"text": "Cal.[…]Sometimes a thouſand twangling Inſtruments\n Will hum about mine eares ; and ſometime voices,\n That if I then had wak'd after long ſleepe,\n Will make me ſleepe againe, and then in dreaming,\n The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches\n Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd\n I cri'de to dreame againe.",
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"text": "Cal.[…]Sometimes a thouſand twangling Inſtruments\n Will hum about mine eares ; and ſometime voices,\n That if I then had wak'd after long ſleepe,\n Will make me ſleepe againe, and then in dreaming,\n The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches\n Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd\n I cri'de to dreame againe.",
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"ref": "2015, Jings Chen, chapter 18, in South Texas Never Raided, Partridge Publishing Singapore, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2020, Derya Öztürk, chapter 9, in Robin Hood (Stage-1), İstanbul: Maviçatı Yayınları, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2021, Manya Srivastava, “Don't Judge a Book by It's^([sic]) Cover”, in Alfesha Zeeshan, Saher Beig, compilers, Musing, Rourkela, Odisha: Unvoiced Heart; Spectrum of Thoughts, →ISBN, page 77:",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.