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]
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28,
34
]
],
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21,
27
]
],
"english": "Then came out of the corner of the prison a very terrifying drake",
"text": "Ðā eode ūt of ðæs karcernes hwomme swīðe egeslīc draca",
"translation": "Then came out of the corner of the prison a very terrifying drake",
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},
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15,
22
]
],
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16,
23
]
],
"english": "In your house's corners",
"text": "On ðīnes hūses hwommum",
"translation": "In your house's corners",
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},
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96,
100
]
],
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98,
104
]
],
"english": "What does it benefit the citizens, though the town be firmly built on every side, if there is one corner left open, that the conquering army may have entrance through it?",
"text": "Hwæt fremaþ ðære burhware ðēah ðe ðæt port beo trumlīce on ǣlce healfe getimbrod gif ðǣr biþ ān hwem open forlǣten ðæt se onwinnenda here þurh ðam infær hæbbe",
"translation": "What does it benefit the citizens, though the town be firmly built on every side, if there is one corner left open, that the conquering army may have entrance through it?",
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10,
17
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16
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"english": "The four corners of all the world",
"text": "Ða fēower hwemmas ealles middangeardes",
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"form": "hwamm",
"source": "declension",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"plural"
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"source": "declension",
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"singular"
]
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"form": "hwamma",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
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"source": "declension",
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]
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},
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"form": "hwemm",
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]
},
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"form": "hwæmm",
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]
}
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"lang_code": "ang",
"pos": "noun",
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28,
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21,
27
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"english": "Then came out of the corner of the prison a very terrifying drake",
"text": "Ðā eode ūt of ðæs karcernes hwomme swīðe egeslīc draca",
"translation": "Then came out of the corner of the prison a very terrifying drake",
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},
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15,
22
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16,
23
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],
"english": "In your house's corners",
"text": "On ðīnes hūses hwommum",
"translation": "In your house's corners",
"type": "example"
},
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96,
100
]
],
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98,
104
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],
"english": "What does it benefit the citizens, though the town be firmly built on every side, if there is one corner left open, that the conquering army may have entrance through it?",
"text": "Hwæt fremaþ ðære burhware ðēah ðe ðæt port beo trumlīce on ǣlce healfe getimbrod gif ðǣr biþ ān hwem open forlǣten ðæt se onwinnenda here þurh ðam infær hæbbe",
"translation": "What does it benefit the citizens, though the town be firmly built on every side, if there is one corner left open, that the conquering army may have entrance through it?",
"type": "example"
},
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10,
17
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9,
16
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"english": "The four corners of all the world",
"text": "Ða fēower hwemmas ealles middangeardes",
"translation": "The four corners of all the world",
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]
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]
}
],
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"ipa": "/xwɑmm/"
},
{
"ipa": "[ʍɑm]"
}
],
"word": "hwamm"
}
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