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"ref": "1925, Milivoy Stoyan Stanoyevich, Slavonic nations of yesterday and today",
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"ref": "2010, Sally Odgers, Shadowdancers",
"text": "Tears bestreamed her face, and the Elder of Midpoint was somewhat bemused at this reception.",
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"ref": "1816, George Pinckard, Notes on the West Indies",
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"ref": "1824, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel",
"text": "[...] it is easy to conceive her terror when she saw my friend in this predicament, lying in my arms, and both of us bestreamed with blood.",
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"ref": "1868, Every Saturday: a journal of choice reading",
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"ref": "1885, Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor prophets",
"text": "Will ye dwell in houses artificially adorned, not so milch for use as for delight, and shall My dwelling-place, wherein was the Holy of holies, and the Cherubim, and the table of shew-brend, be bestreamed with rains, [...]",
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{
"ref": "2004, Marcus Wood, The poetry of slavery",
"text": "I do remember a poor Negro, Under the torrid sun by parching thirst Oppress'd; with sweat-bestreamed brow he slaved, Planting of sugar-canes; [...]",
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"ref": "1899, Homer, Alexander Pope, Philip Gentner, The Iliad of Homer",
"text": "Gear, such as Orchomenus bestreams or Thebae of Egypt, Where lies in palace-hall most wealth, whose gates are an hundred, And steeds, and chariots, and fivescore troops are in each one [...]",
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},
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"text": "Tears bestreamed her face, and the Elder of Midpoint was somewhat bemused at this reception.",
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"text": "[...] and, from using only moderate exercise, I am so bestreamed with perspiration as to make it necessary to change my clothes four or five times in the course of the day: [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1824, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Carlyle, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A Novel",
"text": "[...] it is easy to conceive her terror when she saw my friend in this predicament, lying in my arms, and both of us bestreamed with blood.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1868, Every Saturday: a journal of choice reading",
"text": "The collars of his serge jacket were pulled up high above his ears, making a fantastic setting for his grimy, tear-bestreamed countenance, [...]",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1885, Edward Bouverie Pusey, The Minor prophets",
"text": "Will ye dwell in houses artificially adorned, not so milch for use as for delight, and shall My dwelling-place, wherein was the Holy of holies, and the Cherubim, and the table of shew-brend, be bestreamed with rains, [...]",
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{
"ref": "2004, Marcus Wood, The poetry of slavery",
"text": "I do remember a poor Negro, Under the torrid sun by parching thirst Oppress'd; with sweat-bestreamed brow he slaved, Planting of sugar-canes; [...]",
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"text": "Gear, such as Orchomenus bestreams or Thebae of Egypt, Where lies in palace-hall most wealth, whose gates are an hundred, And steeds, and chariots, and fivescore troops are in each one [...]",
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},
{
"ref": "1995, C. W. E. Bigsby, Hester",
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