Translation examples
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Gassenjungen hatten die Ufer der Themse sauber gehalten – um daran zu verdienen, nicht als Angestellte der Behörden –, und Lumpensammler hatten Wollreste an Mühlen verkauft, die daraus billiges Tuch namens Shoddy produzierten.
Mudlarks had kept the banks of the Thames clean—for entrepreneurial profit, not government wages—and rag pickers had sold scraps of wool to mills for the production of cheap cloth called shoddy.
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