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1  I could feel a terrific lecture coming on.
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2  One thing I have, it's a terrific capacity.
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3  All I felt was this terrific punch in my stomach.
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4  Like as if he was a helluva humble guy, besides being a terrific piano player.
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5  That doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with.
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6  He wrote this terrific book of short stories, The Secret Goldfish, in case you never heard of him.
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7  She was pretty young, but she had this terrific figure, and I wouldn't've put it past that Cudahy bastard.
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8  It was a very old, terrific record that this colored girl singer, Estelle Fletcher, made about twenty years ago.
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9  I swear to God, if I were a piano player or an actor or something and all those dopes thought I was terrific, I'd hate it.
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10  He said, in this one part, that a woman's body is like a violin and all, and that it takes a terrific musician to play it right.
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11  But old Stradlater kept snowing her in this Abraham Lincoln, sincere voice, and finally there'd be this terrific silence in the back of the car.
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12  He's a terrific snob and he won't hardly even talk to you unless you're a big shot or a celebrity or something, but he can really play the piano.
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13  We had a terrific guy on the team, Howie Coyle, that could sink them from the middle of the floor, without even touching the backboard or anything.
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14  He was telling us all about what a swell guy he was, what a hot-shot and all, then all of a sudden this guy sitting in the row in front of me, Edgar Marsalla, laid this terrific fart.
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15  What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it.
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16  She kept saying these very corny, boring things, like calling the can the "little girls' room," and she thought Buddy Singer's poor old beat-up clarinet player was really terrific when he stood up and took a couple of ice-cold hot licks.
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17  You couldn't see the grandstand too hot, but you could hear them all yelling, deep and terrific on the Pencey side, because practically the whole school except me was there, and scrawny and faggy on the Saxon Hall side, because the visiting team hardly ever brought many people with them.
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