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Suppose Count Mercier wished to say that he was sorry that his tobacco had been captured by the foe, why should he couch it in such language as, 'Thá mee ongan hréowan thaet mín _tobacco_ on feónda geweald feran sceolde' -- which is the good _old_ Anglo-Saxon idiom. '
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W hat wonder the unpra&ifed heart of young Sa - feran was moved with a fight that Would have 'thawed the ceideft an - chorite to warm defires!.
The British Magazine and Review, Or, Universal Miscellany 1783
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[baptised], and his ge-feran [companions] samod the mid him sithedon
Early Britain Anglo-Saxon Britain Grant Allen 1873
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