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DRESSED in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
UNCLE in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
CHANGE in The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
ABLE in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
HIGGINS in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
MARRIAGE in War and Peace 6 by Leo Tolstoy
ABOUT in Moby Dick by Herman Melville
TWINS in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
SMOKING in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
POOR in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
FRIEND in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
USUALLY in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
SMOKING in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
SMOKES in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
SMOKE in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
I WOULD in The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
FRIENDS in The Narrative of the Life by Frederick Douglass
WHISPERS in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
WHEN in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
SOLDIERING in Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
BELL in Anthem by Ayn Rand
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RELATION in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
IMPERTINENT in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
GRIEF in The Aeneid by Virgil
COMMONS in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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NURSE in Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
MORNING in Gulliver's Travels 1 by Jonathan Swift
KILL in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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DARK in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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DEAR BOY in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
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TIRED in The Trial by Franz Kafka
WHITE in Moby Dick by Herman Melville
OTTO in My Antonia by Willa Cather
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MAST in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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ARMSTRONG in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
SHADOWS in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
COURTHOUSE in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
CLOTHING in The Odyssey by Homer
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CUNEGONDE in Candide by Voltaire
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FLOW in Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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TERRIBLY in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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EXISTING in The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
DOLLY in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
GRANGE in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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WATCH in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
LAND OF in The Odyssey by Homer
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TYRANT in Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli
MY in My Antonia by Willa Cather
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