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Examples
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I call to mind the parting-day that rent our loves in twain,
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And indeed patience failed him; his tears ran down his cheeks, like rain, and he repeated these couplets twain,
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She sought to let another share the love between us twain,
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Say me, is there no judge of Love to judge us twain,
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They thought I was possessed45 and one of them began reciting exorcisms in my ear; nor did they cease to comfort her and beseech her to sing, till she tuned the lute again and chaunted these couplets twain,
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“Sit down, my friend,” said the elder of the twain,
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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Went through a world that could not make them twain,
Ogrin the Hermit 1996
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With his strong right hand almighty, rent he now the ground in twain,
Indian Legends of Minnesota Cordenio A. Severance
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On the devious being of woman; yea, burdens twain,
Hippolytus/The Bacchae 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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The knight is left alone, his steel-cap cleft in twain,
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education
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