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      <p ns="0" title="Distant Thunder: Chapter 2" snippet="...form.  At such times, only another master can fully interpret the depth of &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; hidden in the graceful movements.&#10;...aling his shock at the intrusion, as all three bowed to him.  &amp;quot;What is the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of this?&amp;quot; Yoshi gasped.  Munemori was having similar trouble hiding his own&#10;" size="12359" wordcount="2125" timestamp="2013-08-23T15:39:06Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Togashi Iwao" snippet="...emony.  In this tea ceremony, small rocks are added to each tea cup with a &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; only known to the one conducting the tea ceremony.  This tea ceremony has b&#10;" size="5024" wordcount="816" timestamp="2014-05-31T02:31:30Z" />
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      <p ns="0" title="Distant Thunder: Chapter 6" snippet="...ai and ending the War Against the Darkness four years prior.  &amp;quot;What is the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; of this?&amp;quot; demanded Hochiu, gesturing toward the door that Tsukune had just &#10;...offer nothing to anyone who did not offer something to help us militarily, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that I could do nothing but step back from our Crane negotiations when I le&#10;" size="12705" wordcount="2228" timestamp="2013-08-23T15:39:18Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Kaeru Province" snippet="...province in the Matsu lands, but it expanded and was renamed “Kaeru” (&lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; “captured”) after a large expansion into Crane lands just before the Cl&#10;" size="682" wordcount="115" timestamp="2013-08-29T21:14:30Z" />
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      <p ns="0" title="Soshi Soshimitsu" snippet="...s, knowing that he could not honourably accept the gift due to it&amp;#039;s subtle &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;. Soshimitsu regretfully explained that as a magistrate, he would have no ne&#10;" size="4974" wordcount="801" timestamp="2014-07-15T23:36:45Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="A Mantis&#039; Destiny" snippet="...on downcast in shame. He failed to protect Isawa Ume, and his death had no &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;.&amp;lt;br&amp;gt;&#10;" size="18800" wordcount="3419" timestamp="2014-12-01T18:10:18Z" />
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