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HESTER in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
BEATED in White Fang by Jack London
ALIVE in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
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DEAR in War and Peace 1 by Leo Tolstoy
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BABY in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
WIND in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
WORLD in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
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OGILVY in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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