See afloat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, London: Chapman & Hall, Book 2, Chapter 3, p. 243:",
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"ref": "1769, Elizabeth Griffith, The School for Rakes, London: T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, Epilogue, page 92:",
"text": "You’ll find, when once my passion is afloat, / The soul of Caesar, in a petticoat!",
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"ref": "1794, Thomas Holcroft, chapter 6, in The Adventures of Hugh Trevor, volume 1, London: Shepperson and Reynolds, page 46:",
"text": "My half frozen blood and my fears again afloat made me tremble through every limb;",
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"text": "1789, Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield dated August 1789, in Miscellaneous Works, London: A. Strahan et al., 1796, p. 201,\nI know not what to say; my mind is all afloat; yet you will not reproach me with caprice or inconstancy."
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"ref": "1887, Harry Castlemon, chapter 1, in Our Fellows, Philadelphia: John C. Winston, page 10:",
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"roman": "pluvašt",
"sense": "floating",
"word": "плуващ"
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"word": "浮着地"
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"word": "на воде́"
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"text": "early 1600s, John Webster and William Rowley, The Thracian Wonder, London: Thomas Johnson, 1661, Act I, Scene 1,\nBut Huswife, as for you, / You with your Brat, wee’l send afloat the Main,"
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