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1 He kept that book under lock and key.
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2 I can't fall; that ain't the way it is in the book.
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3 THE harder Tom tried to fasten his mind on his book, the more his ideas wandered.
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4 She glanced around; found herself alone, and the next instant she had the book in her hands.
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5 Becky snatched at the book to close it, and had the hard luck to tear the pictured page half down the middle.
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6 Every day he took a mysterious book out of his desk and absorbed himself in it at times when no classes were reciting.
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7 She did not expect that Tom could get out of his trouble by denying that he spilt the ink on the book himself; and she was right.
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8 Nudges and winks and whispers traversed the room, but Tom sat still, with his arms upon the long, low desk before him, and seemed to study his book.
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9 Every boy and girl had a theory about the nature of that book; but no two theories were alike, and there was no way of getting at the facts in the case.
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10 By and by, Mr. Dobbins straightened himself up, yawned, then unlocked his desk, and reached for his book, but seemed undecided whether to take it out or leave it.
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11 If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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12 He had to eat with a knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot.
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