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[ { "end": 26.152, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "spinning along all day in the cars it was ecstasy to breathe the bracing air and gaze out over the vast brown solitudes of the velvet plains soft and lovely near by, still softer and lovelier further away softest and loveliest of all in the remote distan...

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[ { "end": 19.104, "start": 0.009, "text": [ "my brain seemed burnt up no tears came as soon as we fell the sergeant let go the horse and it went off so that escape was cut off. We sat down on the ground waiting for death. Poor fellow he was very weak his thirst was frightful, and I went to get him ...

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