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"text": "Bardolph: Well met, Corporal Nim.",
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"ref": "1833, Unknown translator, “The Death Song of Regner Lodbrog”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 33, page 915",
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"ref": "1902, Emerson Hough, The Mississippi Bubble, pages 280–281",
"text": "Mother of God! but we are well met here, in this wilderness, among the savages.",
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"(archaic) Welcome, greeted."
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"text": "Lady Merlumina?! You were well met. She is an ancestor of mine."
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"text": "\"Ho, Fios,\" Verne said as he raised a hand in greeting.\n\"Well met, Master Verne,\" the smallest of the dogs replied.",
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"text": "Mother of God! but we are well met here, in this wilderness, among the savages.",
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