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1  I picked up the phone book and called my English teacher.
The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton
Context   In Chapter 12
2  It bothered my English teacher, the way I was goofing up, I mean.
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Context   In Chapter 12
3  And I decided I could tell people, beginning with my English teacher.
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Context   In Chapter 12
4  They smelled so heavily of whiskey and English Leather that I almost choked.
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Context   In Chapter 4
5  I used to make A's in English, mostly because my teacher made us do compositions all the time.
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Context   In Chapter 12
6  I could smell English Leather shaving lotion and stale tobacco, and I wondered foolishly if I would suffocate before they did anything.
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Context   In Chapter 1
7  I didn't do too badly in math, because Darry checked over my homework in that and usually caught all my mistakes and made me do it again, but in English I really washed out.
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Context   In Chapter 12
8  I had to read Great Expectations for English, and that kid Pip, he reminded me of us--- the way he felt marked lousy because he wasn't a gentleman or anything, and the way that girl kept looking down on him.
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Context   In Chapter 1