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EVERY in Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
LANGUAGE in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
BELONGING in Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
COMRADE in Animal Farm by George Orwell
WORK in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
JEW in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
NEVER in A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
SQUEALER in Animal Farm by George Orwell
IT in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
NO in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
TOWN in Gulliver's Travels 2 by Jonathan Swift
SAID MISS PROSS in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
PROSTITUTES in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
COLD in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
MADEMOISELLE REISZ in The Awakening by Kate Chopin
PAIN in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
STARKFIELD in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
FROME in Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
HASTE in Romeo And Juliet by William Shakespeare
GOOD in War and Peace 6 by Leo Tolstoy
BODY in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
LOVE in Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
BLIND in Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
MOOR in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
CAT in Animal Farm by George Orwell
MARRY in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
SIR HENRY in The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
CHANGE in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
PRISON in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
FIRE in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
DYING in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
ENEMY in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
MORALS in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
DARKNESS in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
THE in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
EXPECTATIONS in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
EAT in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
EURYCLEA in The Odyssey by Homer
ECHO in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
LEARN in Anna Karenina 2 by Leo Tolstoy
FREEDOM in War and Peace 5 by Leo Tolstoy
WISH in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
WHITE in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
CLOTHES in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
OLIVER in Between the Acts by Virginia Woolf
JACK in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
FRED in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
SERYOZHA in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
SILENCE in Hard Times by Charles Dickens
KILL in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
NEED in Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
HOUSE in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
FIRE in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
SHEWING in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
TOAD in The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
PEACE in Les Misérables 1 by Victor Hugo
SNOW in War and Peace 1 by Leo Tolstoy
SHAMEFUL in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
HOLD in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
WILD in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
ALL in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
ANTONIO in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
LAUGH in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
MOTHER in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
OBLIGATIONS in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
TOUCH in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
FAMILY in Les Misérables 5 by Victor Hugo
SACKED in The Odyssey by Homer
AFTERWARDS in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
FACE in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
MOUNT in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
MOTHER in Anna Karenina 3 by Leo Tolstoy
MOTHER in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
RAYS in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
EARS in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
UNDERSTAND in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
INTELLIGENCE in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
FOUNTAIN in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
LUZHIN in Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
SAVED in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
GATES in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
YOUNG in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
ESTATE in The Odyssey by Homer
WORDS in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
MONEY in Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
FEAR in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
WORLD in The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
TOWN in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
BELLS in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
FATHER in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
JOURNEY in The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
RULED in The Odyssey by Homer
BEAUTY in The Odyssey by Homer
GIRL in The Odyssey by Homer
REGRET in Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
TEIRESIAS in The Odyssey by Homer
CHRISTMAS in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
MR. BROCKLEHURST in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
MOUNTAINS in The Odyssey by Homer
EASY in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
OAR in The Odyssey by Homer
COMRADES in The Odyssey by Homer
COLD in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
JOY in The Odyssey by Homer
SHEEP in The Odyssey by Homer
BOMBING in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
DINNER in The Odyssey by Homer
CHARIOT in The Odyssey by Homer
NICE in Dracula by Bram Stoker
GUARDIAN in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
SNOW in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
HELPING in The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
FEAR in Dracula by Bram Stoker
SENATOR in Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius by Niccolo Machiavelli
BOXER in Animal Farm by George Orwell
WEAK in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
MARRIAGE in Anna Karenina 2 by Leo Tolstoy
BEGGAR in The Odyssey by Homer
WILD in My Antonia by Willa Cather
SERVE in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
SILVER in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
GO in The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
DEAD in The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
INDEPENDENCE in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
MONEY in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
RUNNING in The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
SIKES in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
KNOWLEDGE in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
AFRAID in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
SLAVE in Up From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington
ONLY in To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
CANDLE in Anna Karenina 1 by Leo Tolstoy
SWEET in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
NEW YORK in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
PAINT in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
KILLING in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
FITNESS in Dracula by Bram Stoker
FINAL in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
SIR WALTER ELLIOT in Persuasion by Jane Austen
CERTAINLY in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
FRIENDSHIP in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott