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CRUEL in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
HOPE in The Odyssey by Homer
ALICE in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
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PROFESSIONAL in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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SKIES in The Odyssey by Homer
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