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1  He went around trying to break laws.
The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 2
2  That made it worse to see him break now.
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Context   In Chapter 2
3  And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks.
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Context   In Chapter 7
4  I don't know either--- it's just a way of trying to break us.
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Context   In Chapter 5
5  Don't think of Dally breaking up in the hospital, crumpling under the street light.
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Context   In Chapter 10
6  I automatically hitched my thumbs in my jeans and slouched, wondering if I could get away if I made a break for it.
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Context   In Chapter 1
7  Neither one of my brothers had ever been beaten in a fight, but I wasn't exactly itching for someone to break the record.
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Context   In Chapter 9
8  I thought dizzily that he was going to knock some of my teeth loose or break my nose or something, and I knew I didn't have a chance.
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Context   In Chapter 9
9  And you can't win against them no matter how hard you try, because they've got all the breaks and even whipping them isn't going to change that fact.
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Context   In Chapter 1
10  "Dropout" made me think of some poor dumb-looking hoodlum wandering the streets breaking out street lights--- it didn't fit my happy-go-lucky brother at all.
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Context   In Chapter 2