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With his face writhing and his tongue popping in a

A lone figure skulked down the long aisle towards

Suddenly, beside me, James Scobie was on his feet,

The spider's great hairy legs picked their way acr

A hush fell around the ground like a sheet being p

Crow stood like a block of granite.

Suddenly my legs began to jump and shake and I had

The pen lingered over the diary like a scalpel ove

He ground out his words like a Mack truck in low g

The new boy sat back twitching his nose like a rab

Mr Hardcastle's face was set like a rock.

Dad said I was shrieking like a chainsaw.

...you and your friends might prefer just to stare

I felt like a wooden puppet jerking and jumping as

I don't know why, or what I thought I could do, bu

Old John with white hair Does laugh away care, Sit

The sun does arise, And make happy the skies. The

The work, satirizing Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jub

A Banksy mural recently removed from a London stre

Investors are skeptical that U.S. retail spending

A tax break used by oil and gas pipeline companies

"LOOK at that!" said Jack. "Somebody's been having

It was now near enough for Dinah to be able to see

"It may clear when we've had breakfast," said Phil

Kiki had never heard a donkey bray before and she

Trefor helped his brother to load up a donkey with

"Oh - I can't wait that long!" said Dinah, and the

"It will be an adventure!" said Dinah. "Not one of

"Oh, Bill! Can we really go?" said Lucy-Ann, overj

He had walked slowly but once he left the room he

Mother, Maria and Bruno were the last people to le

Bruno and Gretel could see hundreds of people, but

Everywhere they looked they could see people, tall

'Mother,' said Bruno, marching towards her, 'what'

Maria shook her head and pointed towards the stair

'What are you doing?' he asked in as polite a tone

One afternoon, when Bruno came home from school, h

Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over, a

...till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled.

...and, running up the flagged causeway bordered w

Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over...

...and the air made me shiver through every limb.

...the earth was hard with a black frost...

On that bleak hill-top...

On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a b

On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a b

Into the street the Piper stept, Smiling first a l

Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, A

Hamelin Town's in Brunswick, By famous Hanover ci

The "conductors" of the railroad-the field agents