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DIVINE in The Aeneid by Virgil
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LEAVE in Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
LAND in Lord of the Flies by William Golding
WOLF in Dracula by Bram Stoker
RIPPLING in Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
COAT in The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
INVITATIONS in Ivanhoe by Walter Scott
MOVED in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
JIM in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
RUINED in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
EYES in The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
GARDEN in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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MR. JONES in Animal Farm by George Orwell
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