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1  He lifted her arm and let it drop.
Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
Context   In CHAPTER 5
2  Curley's shoulders dropped and squared.
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Context   In CHAPTER 3
3  She dropped her fingers and put her hands on her hips.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
4  George unslung his bindle and dropped it gently on the bank.
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Context   In CHAPTER 1
5  Before George answered, Candy dropped his head and looked down at the hay.
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Context   In CHAPTER 5
6  And she looked longest at Lennie, until he dropped his eyes in embarrassment.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
7  George scowled at him, and Lennie dropped his head in shame at having forgotten.
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Context   In CHAPTER 2
8  George raised the gun and his hand shook, and he dropped his hand to the ground again.
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Context   In CHAPTER 6
9  A FEW MILES south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green.
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Context   In CHAPTER 1
10  Now and then he poured a few drops of the liniment into his pink-palmed hand and reached up under his shirt to rub again.
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Context   In CHAPTER 4
11  His huge companion dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool; drank with long gulps, snorting into the water like a horse.
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Context   In CHAPTER 1
12  They made their beds on the sand, and as the blaze dropped from the fire the sphere of light grew smaller; the curling branches disappeared and only a faint glimmer showed where the tree trunks were.
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Context   In CHAPTER 1
13  When a little bird skittered over the dry leaves behind him, his head jerked up and he strained toward the sound with eyes and ears until he saw the bird, and then he dropped his head and drank again.
Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck
Context   In CHAPTER 6