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1  Soda gave me a playful punch on the shoulder.
The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 12
2  Soda and Steve were playing cards and arguing as usual.
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Context   In Chapter 9
3  We killed time by reading Gone with the Wind and playing poker.
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Context   In Chapter 5
4  Soda laughed and went right on playing poker with Steve in the living room.
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Context   In Chapter 9
5  I had just thought that maybe if I played like Johnny wasn't dead it wouldn't hurt so much.
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Context   In Chapter 12
6  When Tim got to me he studied me, maybe remembering how his kid brother and I had played chicken.
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Context   In Chapter 9
7  He spun me into Steve, who gave me a playful slap on my bruised back and shoved me across the room.
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Context   In Chapter 7
8  If I was playing football, I should be in studying, and if I was reading, I should be out playing football.
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Context   In Chapter 1
9  Darry liked anything that took strength, like weight lifting or playing football or roofing houses, even if he was proud of being smart too.
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Context   In Chapter 9
10  Curly, who was a tough, cool, hard-as-nails Tim in miniature, and I had once played chicken by holding our cigarette ends against each other's fingers.
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Context   In Chapter 9
11  Johnny was somewhere else--- maybe asleep in the lot, or playing the pinball machine in the bowling alley, or sitting on the back steps of the church in Windrixville.
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Context   In Chapter 10