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[ { "id": "large/9424/outdoorgirlsofdeepdale_1408_librivox_64kb_mp3/outdoorgirlsofdeepdale_24_hope_64kb_6", "recording_id": "large/9424/outdoorgirlsofdeepdale_1408_librivox_64kb_mp3/outdoorgirlsofdeepdale_24_hope_64kb", "start": 0, "duration": 19.28, "channel": 0, "language": "English", "speaker": "9424", "text": "\"No, thank you. That was fine. Now I must try and get dry. But I'm used to this sort of thing. I'm from the West, and I've been in more than one flood.\" \"You have!\" cried Amy, and the others knew of what she was thinking her own case. \"I hope he didn't have the same sort of trouble I had, though,\" she thought." } ]

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[ { "id": "large/9478/christmas_tales_and_verse_1612_librivox_64kb_mp3/christmas_08_field_64kb_3", "recording_id": "large/9478/christmas_tales_and_verse_1612_librivox_64kb_mp3/christmas_08_field_64kb", "start": 0, "duration": 21.96, "channel": 0, "language": "English", "speaker": "9478", "text": "_ CHRYSTMASSE OF OLDE God rest you, Chrysten gentil men, Wherever you may be, God rest you all in fielde or hall, Or on ye stormy sea; For on this morn oure Chryst is born That saveth you and me." } ]

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[ { "id": "large/9478/christmas_tales_and_verse_1612_librivox_64kb_mp3/christmas_13_field_64kb_38", "recording_id": "large/9478/christmas_tales_and_verse_1612_librivox_64kb_mp3/christmas_13_field_64kb", "start": 0, "duration": 13.399, "channel": 0, "language": "English", "speaker": "9478", "text": "It heard them tell of the Master's goodness and humility, how He had healed the sick and raised the dead and bestowed inestimable blessings wherever He walked." } ]

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[ { "id": "large/948/anthem_librivox_64kb_mp3/anthem_05_rand_64kb_6", "recording_id": "large/948/anthem_librivox_64kb_mp3/anthem_05_rand_64kb", "start": 0, "duration": 16.199, "channel": 0, "language": "English", "speaker": "948", "text": "We stood, and we held our head in our hands. We could not conceive of that which we had created. We had touched no flint, made no fire. Yet here was light, light that came from nowhere, light from the heart of metal." } ]

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