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"text": "Construction of the new offices is proceeding apace.",
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"ref": "1850, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel, The Germ; reprinted in Poems [Collection of British and American Authors; 1380], copyright edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873, OCLC 933409239, page 2, lines 19–24",
"text": "(To one, it is ten years of years.\n... Yet now, and in this place,\nSurely she leaned o'er me—her hair\nFell all about my face. ...\nNothing: the autumn fall of leaves.\nThe whole year sets apace.)"
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"ref": "1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1998",
"text": "Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west.",
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"ref": "2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer",
"text": "Despite efforts to prevent it, officials say, the radicalisation of young Muslims living in Europe proceeds apace.",
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
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"word": "aller bon train"
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"text": "(To one, it is ten years of years.\n... Yet now, and in this place,\nSurely she leaned o'er me—her hair\nFell all about my face. ...\nNothing: the autumn fall of leaves.\nThe whole year sets apace.)"
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
"word": "tezbazar"
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
"word": "飛快"
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
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"word": "aller bon train"
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
"word": "rasch"
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
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"word": "ligeiro"
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"sense": "Quickly, rapidly, with speed",
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