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"word": "sorvegliante"
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"word": "maor-coimhid"
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"code": "te",
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"roman": "jailu adhikāri",
"sense": "guard",
"word": "జైలు అధికారి"
}
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"text": "1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,\nWhen, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,\nCasts down his Warder to arrest them there;"
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"text": "If thou doſt not inſtantly comply with theſe juſt demands, he defies thee to ſingle combat to the laſt extremity. And ſo ſaying, the Herald caſt down his warder.",
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