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The guilty are alarmed and turn pale at the slightest thunder.

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Juvenal
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Writer
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Decimus Junius Juvenalis
Pale
Guilty
Turn
Turns
Alarmed
Slightest
Thunder

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