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Toe daar tot die daad oorgegaan word, het die leier van die NNP voete van klei.
SPEECH BY ANC MP, DR MANIE SCHOEMAN DURING THE PRESIDENT�S BUDGET VOTE 2001
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Die huise wat hulle met hul eie hande en die bekende klei van die gebied gebou het, is met stootskrapers platgestoot en vandag kan 'n mens net die oorblyfsels van die fondamente sien.
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They caught up with him while he was selecting a klei-lat from the hedge.
The Sound of Thunder Smith, Wilbur, 1933- 1966
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In this week's Parshah, as we near completion of the design and construction detail of the Tabernacle in the desert, G-d turns his attention to the "klei kodesh," the holy utensils, the Priests themselves, who were to manage, service and administer in the holy Tabernacle.
Jewish Advocate 2009
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J.B. Hofmann suggests some extraneous source, perhaps Semitic; but if truly Greek, it could derive from the base klei - ` to close 'plus the agent suffix - tor, to which is added a feminine ending.
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