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1  He wants to tell you about the dog, mother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
2  They're off looking for that dog, somewhere.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
3  'Jan wants to bury his dog there,' Antonia explained.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  She knew a dog who had a star on his collar for every badger he had killed.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
5  Ahead of me, in a plum thicket beside the road, I saw two boys bending over a dead dog.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
6  After breakfast I made him do his lessons; play dead dog, shake hands, stand up like a soldier.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
7  Lena's landlord, old Colonel Raleigh, had given her the dog, and at first she was not at all pleased.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
8  The wolves ran like streaks of shadow; they looked no bigger than dogs, but there were hundreds of them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
9  The dogs were out, as usual, dozens of them, sitting up on their hind legs over the doors of their houses.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
10  Then the dog dragged himself back, covered with bites and scratches, to be rewarded and petted by his master.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
11  The boys were standing by the windmill, talking about the dog; some of them ran ahead to open the cellar door.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
12  Antonia said she didn't believe it; that the dogs probably lapped up the dew in the early morning, like the rabbits.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
13  Those dogs, she said, went down into the hole after the badger and killed him there in a terrific struggle underground; you could hear the barks and yelps outside.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
14  Sometimes I rode north to the big prairie-dog town to watch the brown earth-owls fly home in the late afternoon and go down to their nests underground with the dogs.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
15  They came to pick up an easy living among the dogs and owls, which were quite defenceless against them; took possession of their comfortable houses and ate the eggs and puppies.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
16  That afternoon she was telling me how highly esteemed our friend the badger was in her part of the world, and how men kept a special kind of dog, with very short legs, to hunt him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
17  She loved to put up lunches for him when he went hunting, to mend his ball-gloves and sew buttons on his shooting-coat, baked the kind of nut-cake he liked, and fed his setter dog when he was away on trips with his father.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
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