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"text": "...Or if Sion Hill\nDelight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow’d\nFaft by the Oracle of God; I thence\nInvoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,\nThat with no middle flight intends to soar\nAbove th’ Ionian Mounts while it pursues",
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"feminine"
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"roman": "gadyaṁ",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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},
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nasr",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"word": "نثر"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "proza"
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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},
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "próza",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"word": "про́за"
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{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"word": "про́за"
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"code": "sw",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"word": "nathari"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "tg",
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"roman": "nasr",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "te",
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"roman": "gadyamu",
"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"word": "గద్యము"
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "tr",
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"code": "tr",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "ur",
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"code": "ug",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"word": "نەسر"
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"code": "uz",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
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"code": "uz",
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"code": "vi",
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"sense": "written language not intended as poetry",
"word": "văn xuôi"
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"ref": "1896, Robert Smythe Hichens, The Folly of Eustace",
"text": "Already he felt himself near to being a celebrity. He had astonished Eton. That was a good beginning. Papa might prose, knowing, of course, nothing of the poetry of caricature, of the wild joys and the laurels that crown the whimsical. So while Mr. Lane hunted adjectives, and ran sad-sounding and damnatory substantives to earth, Eustace hugged himself, and secretly chuckled over his pilgrim's progress towards the pages of Vanity Fair.",
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