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"ref": "1943, H. Lorna Bingham, The Lost Tribe, Sydney: Winn and Co., page 13, column 2:",
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"word": "странен"
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"word": "tajuplný"
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"word": "tajemný"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
"word": "étrange"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"sense": "inspiring fear, especially in a mysterious or shadowy way",
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"ref": "1884, Gordon Stables, O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas, page 114:",
"text": "I'm not sure, indeed, that we didn't scare the eagles from their eeries; at all events we thought we did.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1910, Hans Adolf Erwein Max graf von Königsmarck, P. H. Oakley Williams, A German Staff Officer in India:",
"text": "They hang suspended over precipices, these rocky eeries of grim birds of prey that bequeath their appetite for murder and loot to their brood.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1912 December, Joseph Stutzin, “The Children of the Eagle”, in Israel Goldberg, transl., The Maccabæan: A Magazine of Jewish Life and Letters, volume 22, number 6, page 184:",
"text": "Of the heavenly azure, and of the eeries suspended on the highest rocks they had indeed heard something, but they had never seen them, and in spite of their wishes it was no longer the old keen home-sickness of the old eagles.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1914, Walter Bloem, The Iron Year, page 78:",
"text": "What was it that had driven them forth from their wooded mountain eeries to wait and watch for that one short moment, when the figure of an old man clad in a plain black military tunic would become visible at the saloon-window of a crawling train, to watch a wrinkled hand wave a fleeting greeting?",
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{
"ref": "1932, Nina Larrey Duryea, Mallorca the Magnificent, page 26:",
"text": "But his army reached Buñola at the head of the pass, and at once, like a whirlwind, the Moors swept down from their eeries and gave battle.",
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