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“I have come for justice! Blood for blood! A pelt for a pelt!”

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“Well, well, well—the wolf children and their governess. What are you doing up here, then? Other than pelting me with nuts, I mean?”

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It was no ghost, merely a gray-furred pelt stuffed with sawdust and outfitted with yellow glass eyes that reflected the candlelight in a hauntingly lifelike way.

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But, overall, some travelers dodged shutdown bullets, others were pelted as airlines canceled more than 10,000 flights in the last week alone.

The damage could have happened while it was pelted with debris from the fire and the engine detatching.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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