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SWITCHBLADE in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
LOVE in The Aeneid by Virgil
LOVE in The Odyssey by Homer
SKILLFUL in The Odyssey by Homer
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SOUND in Moby Dick by Herman Melville
STEP in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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LOUIS in The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
NEVER in A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
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