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LITTLE in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
HOME in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
CLOUDS in Moby Dick by Herman Melville
EYES in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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FANCY in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
WINE in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
WISH in Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
EXPERIENCE in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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THREE in Animal Farm by George Orwell
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