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Examples
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Gebet is still "prayer" in German, and the word beten means "to pray".
Planet Atheism 2010
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And there was wont to ben a chirche; but it is beten doun.
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And therfore weren wee the more devout a gret del: and zit wee weren cast doun and beten down many tymes to the hard erthe, be wyndes and thondres and tempestes: but evere more God of His grace halp us: and so we passed that perilous vale, with outen perile and with outen encombrance.
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That cytee was wont to be righte strong; but it was twyes wonnen of the Cristene men: and therfore after that the Sarazines beten down the walles.
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But for because that Jerusalem hath often-time been destroyed and the walls abated and beten down and tumbled into the vale, and that they have been so filled again and the ground enhanced; and for that skill is the church so low within the earth.
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In that place was wont to ben a faire chirche; and many othere there weren; but thei ben alle beten doun.
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That cytee was wont to be righte strong; but it was twyes wonnen of the Cristene men: and therfore after that the Sarazines beten down the walles.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And there was wont to ben a chirche; but it is beten doun.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And therfore weren wee the more devout a gret del: and zit wee weren cast doun and beten down many tymes to the hard erthe, be wyndes and thondres and tempestes: but evere more God of His grace halp us: and so we passed that perilous vale, with outen perile and with outen encombrance.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In that place was wont to ben a faire chirche; and many othere there weren; but thei ben alle beten doun.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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