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प्रश्न
What was the knife that Miss Meadows carried with her?
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उत्तर
Miss. Meadows had received a letter from Mr. Basil calling off the marriage. She deemed it a kind of personal failure. Her anger and disappointment became despair. She carried cold despair buried deep in her heart like a wicked knife.
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Example:
(0) started
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Remove
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slackers
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muck
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kept in
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got carried away
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cut
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sadist
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shrivelled up
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All but Blind*
All but blind
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All but blind
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All but blind
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- what you do there
- why you like it
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