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"ref": "1886, Guðbrandur Vigfússon, F York Powell, Sigfred-Arminius and other papers",
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"ref": "1891, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Report and transactions",
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"ref": "1927, David Murray, Memories of the old college of Glasgow",
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"ref": "1963, Richard Wilbur, The poems of Richard Wilbur",
"text": "As Wulfstan said, It is oathbreach, faithbreach, lovebreach Bring the invaders into the estuaries.",
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"ref": "2004, Jane Chance, Tolkien and the Invention of Myth",
"text": "It is also interesting because of the litany in which the word appears, giving it a rhetorical prominence to which only a culture founded on the oath would give it, for adbrice means, simply, \"oath breach,\" or \"oath breaking.\"",
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"ref": "2006, Francis Dolan, Meg and Jen's Other World Adventures",
"text": "Queen Elithe intervened in a sweet sing song voice 'Sire don't you think that the Oath breach can wait until the troll and goblin issue has been solved and put to rest, I'm sure Daffyd has a very good and sound reason for the Oath breach.",
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"text": "As Wulfstan said, It is oathbreach, faithbreach, lovebreach Bring the invaders into the estuaries.",
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"ref": "2004, Jane Chance, Tolkien and the Invention of Myth",
"text": "It is also interesting because of the litany in which the word appears, giving it a rhetorical prominence to which only a culture founded on the oath would give it, for adbrice means, simply, \"oath breach,\" or \"oath breaking.\"",
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"text": "Queen Elithe intervened in a sweet sing song voice 'Sire don't you think that the Oath breach can wait until the troll and goblin issue has been solved and put to rest, I'm sure Daffyd has a very good and sound reason for the Oath breach.",
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