Translation examples
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Zum Abschied streifte er mir einen seltsam gearbeiteten Ring über den Finger mit einem tiefschwarzen, glanzlosen Stein, der fast wie bituminöse Kohle aussah;
On parting he slipped upon my finger a curiously wrought ring set with a dead-black, lusterless stone, which appeared more like a bit of bituminous coal than the priceless Barsoomian gem which in reality it is.
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