See an in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"english": "You could go a whole day's journey, but you'd never find anyone in town or any tilled fields.",
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"ref": "1387–1400, [Geoffrey] Chaucer, “The Prologe of the Tale of the Wẏf of Bathe”, in The Tales of Caunt́bury (Hengwrt Chaucer; Peniarth Manuscript 392D), Aberystwyth, Ceredigion: National Library of Wales, published [c. 1400–1410], →OCLC, folio 63, verso, lines 438-440:",
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