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1  Because that's the only way he can pay me.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
2  Entailment was only a part of Mr. Cunningham's vexations.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
3  The only difference between him and his father was their ages.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
4  I beat him up twice but it did no good, he only grew closer to Jem.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
5  His fingers wandered to his watchpocket; he said that was the only way he could think.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
6  He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
7  I could only hope that Jem would outrun the tire and me, or that I would be stopped by a bump in the sidewalk.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4
8  They spent days together in the treehouse plotting and planning, calling me only when they needed a third party.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
9  All we had was Simon Finch, a fur-trapping apothecary from Cornwall whose piety was exceeded only by his stinginess.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  He returned to Saint Stephens only once, to find a wife, and with her established a line that ran high to daughters.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
11  Until Jem and Dill excluded me from their plans, she was only another lady in the neighborhood, but a relatively benign presence.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
12  Our first raid came to pass only because Dill bet Jem The Gray Ghost against two Tom Swifts that Jem wouldn't get any farther than the Radley gate.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
13  The shutters and doors of the Radley house were closed on Sundays, another thing alien to Maycomb's ways: closed doors meant illness and cold weather only.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
14  When Miss Caroline threatened it with a similar fate the first grade exploded again, becoming cold sober only when the shadow of Miss Blount fell over them.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
15  Miss Stephanie Crawford said he was so upright he took the word of God as his only law, and we believed her, because Mr. Radley's posture was ramrod straight.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
16  I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
17  Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6
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