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MR. WORTHING in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
ABOUT in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
WOMEN in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
SUNSET in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
BUYING in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
HOPE in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
SECRETS in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
APPEAR in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
EXPERIENCE in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
ELSE in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
ALONE in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
DARRY in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
OTHERS in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
DISINHERITED KNIGHT in Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
BEGGAR in The Odyssey by Homer
FLAG in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
SUN in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
FLAME in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
FRIEND in Persuasion by Jane Austen
WATCHED in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
BARNARD'S INN in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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ADVENTURE in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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MAN in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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SORRY in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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ANY in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
NATIVE in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
SUMMER in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
MOLE in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
ANIMAL in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
PIG in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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MEN in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
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MEN in The Odyssey by Homer
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ALIVE in The Odyssey by Homer
SUMMER in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
SPEECH in The Odyssey by Homer
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DELIGHTED in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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