"upon a time" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1844, Robert Burns, John Wilson, The Works of Robert Burns, page 160:",
          "text": "... one of the servant girls made faith that she upon a time rashly entered into the house, to speak, in your cant, \"in the hour of cause.\"",
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          "ref": "1888, Charles Talbut Onions, James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie (editors), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (cited text refers to P. Holland's translation of Plutarch's Morals (1603), page 574:",
          "text": "Captaine Timotheus having upon a time beene at a sober and frugall scholars supper.",
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          "ref": "2012, John Bunyan, The Holy War, Annotated Companion to the Pilgrim's Progress (a republication of Bunyan's original work in 1682), page 212:",
          "text": "Well, after a while the Captains and stout ones of the town of Mansoul agreed, and resolved upon a time to make a salley out upon the camp of Diabolus, ...",
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        "At a certain time; at a particular time."
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        "(dated) At a certain time; at a particular time."
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        "Infrequently."
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        "(dated) Infrequently."
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          "ref": "1844, Robert Burns, John Wilson, The Works of Robert Burns, page 160:",
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          "ref": "1888, Charles Talbut Onions, James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir William Alexander Craigie (editors), A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (cited text refers to P. Holland's translation of Plutarch's Morals (1603), page 574:",
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