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"text": "Pell-mell they rushed for Inverness and safety, leaving the strange battlefield to the stalwart five.",
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"ref": "1996, Rodney Hall, The Island in the Mind, page 400",
"text": "And the prompter our payments the more pell-mell the news came in and the more obligingly gruesome its detail.",
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"ref": "2006, Marion Woods, “Getting Ready”, in A Spiritual Journey Through Poetry with Marion Woods, published 2009, page 48",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "bezrazborno",
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"word": "безразборно"
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"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "hlava nehlava"
},
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"sense": "in haste and chaos",
"word": "o překot"
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