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The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

Kenneth Grahame

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Kenneth Grahame
Age: 73 †
Born: 1859
Born: March 8
Died: 1932
Died: July 6
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Edinburgh
Scotland
Somebody
Wood
Knew
Panic
Running
Hunting
Whole
Round
Hard
Rounds
Aimlessly
Something
Woods
Whither
Began
Closing
Seemed
Chasing

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Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
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