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It was dusk-winter dusk. Snow lay white and shining over the pleated hills, and icicles hung from the forest trees.
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These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket. Their names are Grandpa Joe and Grandma Josephine.
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This is a novel written about dolls in a dolls' house. The chief person in it is Tottie Plantaganet, a small Dutch doll.
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It was hard to understand Barney with the air tubes up his nose. It made his voice sound funny and he couldn't talk very loud.
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The man waiting at the station when she first stepped off the train was the tallest person she had ever seen.
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When, suddenly, on an ordinary Wednesday, it seemed to Barney that the world tilted and ran downhill in all directions, he knew he was about to be haunted again.
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Polly sighed and laid her book face down on her bed. She rather thought she had read it after all, some time ago.
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In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.
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Maria was ten years old. She had dark hair in two pigtails, and brown eyes the color of marmite, but more shiny.
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It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. No. Wrong word, Jonas thought.
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12th DAY OF SETEMBER
I am commanded to write an account of my days: I am bit by fleas and plagued by family. That is all there is to say.
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