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Search phrase: gordian

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Cymbeline	Cym II.ii.34	As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard.	As slippery as the Gordian-knot was hard.
Henry V	H5 I.i.46	The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,	The Gordian Knot of it he will vnloose,

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apparently unsolvable problem, extreme difficulty

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
GORDIAN	BASIC	gordian adj

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