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SYMBOL in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
SLEEP in Animal Farm by George Orwell
ODORS in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
HAND in Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
MARQUIS in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
DESIRE in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
CHURCH in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
OVER in The Odyssey by Homer
OAR in The Odyssey by Homer
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BEAST in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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