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HORSE in The Awakening by Kate Chopin
MISSELTHWAITE in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
FRIEND in The Awakening by Kate Chopin
FIGHTS in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
CLARA in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
JOURNEY in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
INJURY in The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
FAMILY in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
YOU in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
CLERGYMAN'S in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
MISS in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
CHILD in The Awakening by Kate Chopin
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SUCCESS in The Trial by Franz Kafka
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OLD MAN in The Odyssey by Homer
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