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"text": "April, the \"Easter month\" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year."
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"ref": "1900, Georg Herzfeld, Original series",
"text": "When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours.",
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"ref": "1903, New York City mission monthly",
"text": "On this Easter month we have for several years sent out to the friends of our Society a little booklet of real pictures, showing some of the many lines of our work among the poor."
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"ref": "2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England",
"text": "However, we find nineteen [and five] nights from the time that Eastermonth comes, the cycle revolves eke to the day when eager with song fervent with words we worship, [...]",
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"ref": "2009, James Earle Fraser, From Caledonia to Pictland",
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