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"text": "Sir John French says that if he is to single out one regiment in the fighting at Ypres it is the Worcesters he would name? I do plead that some person should record these events, so that our history, national and local, may be the richer for them, that the children may be stimulated to do their duty by the knowledge of the way in which our soldiers are doing theirs to-day.",
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"word": "ottaa silmätikuksi"
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"word": "и́збере"
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"word": "и́здвои"
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"sense": "to select (someone or something) from a group and highlight them or treat them differently",
"word": "о́ддели"
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"sense": "to select (someone or something) from a group and highlight them or treat them differently",
"word": "о́двои"
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