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"ref": "1831, John James Audubon, Ornithological Biography: Volume 1: Blue-grey Fly-catcher",
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"word": "heiveröinen"
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"sense": "easily broken physically",
"word": "gebrechlich"
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"word": "schwach"
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"sense": "easily broken physically",
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"english": "Of ropes, cords, fibres",
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"sense": "easily broken physically",
"word": "makuhane"
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"word": "wątły"
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"word": "arcydelikatny"
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"ref": "1993, John Banville, Ghosts",
"text": "Frail smoke of morning in the air and a sort of muffled hum that is not sound but is not silence either.",
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"ref": "1922, Isaac Rosenberg, Dawn",
"text": "O as the soft and frail lights break upon your eyelids",
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"roman": "iznežen",
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"word": "zierlich"
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