a
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abandoned
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actual
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among
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and
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arithmetic
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away
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between
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blackboard
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boy's
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boys
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but
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by
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class
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closing
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colourful
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curtain
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day-dreams
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deeper
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discovered
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down
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dreamer
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drifted
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ears
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effort
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empurpled
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eyes
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facts
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familiar
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fancy
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floated
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followed
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for
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forgets
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from
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girls
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glow
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had
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Half
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he
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heard
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his
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how
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in
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just
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land
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lesson
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limply
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little
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living
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marvellous
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mathematics
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Maturity
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meaningless
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members
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mindnounUS /maɪnd/
The element of a person that enables awareness and thought.
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Miss
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moment
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new
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not
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nothing
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now
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occupied
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of
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opaque
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openverbUS /ˈoʊ.pən/
To move from a closed position.
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operations
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ordeal
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out
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painful
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passed
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Penrod
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profoundly
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reached
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realness
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recitation-room
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remained
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remaining
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rosy
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routine
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saw
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sea
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seat
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sent
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Several
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sinking
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sounds
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spared
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Spence
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started
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the
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their
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them
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then
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they
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this
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through
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time
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to
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trial
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Victorine
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was
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were
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From this reading Several boys and girls were sent to the blackboard, and Penrod, spared for the moment, followed their operations a little while with his eyes, but not with his mind; then, sinking deeper in his seat, limply abandoned the effort.
which
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From this reading He had drifted away from the painful land of facts, and floated now in a new sea of fancy which he had just discovered.
while
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with
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world
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yet
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