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And παρέα parea is another word I struggle to translate.
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Apoi mă gândesc la copiii lor, şi de neînţeles cum realizarile lor va parea mea la mine in balansoar, la domiciliul vechi Populari.
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This was a woman very beautiful to look upon, but with a double countenance (_ma parea nel viso troppo astuta_).
Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922
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Sì che parea che l'aer ne temesse, and there stamped furiously, and beat the wind with hands of deathful challenge, while I looked on with that noble interest which the enlightened mind always feels in people about to punch each others 'heads.
A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903
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"Well, suppose I DID say that no more parea were to be split up?"
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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Pekka, now and then, that perhaps we shouldn't want all those parea any more, but Pekka couldn't have laid it very much to heart, for he didn't so much as ask the reason why.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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After dinner, scullery-Pekka brought in a large frozen block of wood to split up into parea, and cast it from his shoulders on to the floor with a thud which shook the whole room and set in motion the oil in the lamp.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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But scullery-Pekka gobbled and guzzled as much as all of us put together, and spent the day in splitting parea till he had filled the outhouse full.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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That evening we children lay awake a long time and thought of the new lamp; but old scullery-Pekka, the man who used to split up all the parea, began to snore as soon as ever the evening pare was put out.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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Then father said to him that he had already told him there was no need to split parea any more.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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