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Her Christmas bills added up. After the holidays, her extravagance was going to take several months to pay off.

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It was gratifying to see how she acted toward her grandmother because her grandmother was always kind to her.

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The boy was caught stealing from the store. His larceny caught up with him when the owner showed him a video tape.

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The ideas she presented to the class were clearly an untested theory because there had never been any research done on it.

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He climbed the mountain and stood looking over the tops of the trees on the mountain across from him. He was right on the precipice and could have fallen.

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The boy tried to justify his actions to his mother by explaining the reasons why he did what he did.

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He cut the paper precisely on the line, and it fit perfectly in the grooves of the picture frame.

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My brother said, “I just freed myself from a very loquacious history professor. All he seemed to want was an audience.”

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There is no doubt that the idea of living in such a benign climate was appealing. The islanders seemed to keep their vitality and live longer than Europeans.

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It is difficult to imagine a surfeit of talent in one individual, yet Leonard Bernstein simply does not have the time to make complete use of his talent as conductor, performer, writer, and lecturer.

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There is a large demand all over the United States for plants indigenous to the desert. Many people in Arizona have made a good business of growing and selling cacti and other local plants.

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Such are the vicissitudes of history. Nothing remains the same. Three hundred years of peace ended in darkness and confusion.

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The purpose of the psychiatrist is to mitigate the suffering of the patient.

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We knew he couldn’t hold out much longer, because he had been doomed from the beginning. One night he met his ineluctable fate.

Years later, officials finally decided to try to determine the fate of the colonists. The search did not turn up any answers and the fate of the colony, now known as the Lost Colony, remains a mystery to this day. Although there is no evidence that definitively shows what happened to the colony, there are some theories. One theory suggests that the colonists made an attempt to return to England on their own. Evidence shows that there was a drought at the time and the colonists may have been desperate enough to attempt the dangerous voyage. Other theories suggest that the colonists went to local Native American tribes. Some experts suggest that the Native Americans did not welcome them, while others believe that the colonists were absorbed by a friendly tribe. More recent research has turned up new evidence and a few researchers believe they have solved the mystery.

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As a child, I remember the hot summer evenings spent outside with my parents, naming the birds we heard but could not see. In the dying light, our perception was limited to only one sense—our hearing. From tree to tree echoed a cacophony of calls: Was that a blue jay? A Baltimore oriole? Or that chameleon of birds, the mockingbird? As I tested my fledgling ear I turned to my father for reassurance. Behind his discerning eyes lay something that I wouldn’t be able to identify until many decades later. Was it…. “Dinner is ready!” Mother called. Our Audubon expedition would have to be continued another day.

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Most of the “alternative” theories of Shakespeare’s authorship center on the Oxfordian theory, which suggests that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote all of the plays attributed to Shakespeare. While this theory has little evidence and has been widely rebuked, it still persists in today’s day and age. The ironic aspect of the Oxfordian theory is that while most of its proponents focus on their doubtfulness that one person (Shakespeare) could produce such a large volume of work, they do not explain how Edward de Vere himself could have produced these works in his lifetime. This blindness to self-criticism disproves their original position.

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One of the rarest animals in the world is the okapi. They live in the rain forest in Central Africa. Few people have seen one alive. Every few years someone claims to see one, but they never have proof. A few years ago, some scientists who were studying plants found a skeleton, teeth and some skin in a remote area of the rain forest. They were excited, as they believed they had found the remains of a rare okapi. They drew a picture of what they thought the animal might have looked like when it was alive. The scientists then sent the picture along with the skeleton, teeth and skin to a scientific institution in Dallas, Texas.

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Manuel was on the baseball team that was playing the first place team. It was the first game that his grandparents and uncle Thomas attended. Manuel swung his bat while looking for his family in the large crowd. Just as he spotted his grandmother, his greatest fear came true. He lost his grip on the bat, and it started to fall. Even though he caught it quickly, Manuel's face became red. He felt as if he had made a horrible mistake and everyone were staring at him.

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