The cyclone had set the house down very gently–for a cyclone–in the midst of a country of marvelous beauty.
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His reference to the great games of which I had heard so much while among the Tharks convinced me that I had but jumped from purgatory into gehenna.
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Toto did not really care whether he was in Kansas or the Land of Oz so long as Dorothy was with him; but he knew the little girl was unhappy, and that made him unhappy too.
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Now the Wicked Witch had a great longing to have for her own the Silver Shoes which the girl always wore.
While she stood looking eagerly at the strange and beautiful sights, she noticed coming toward her a group of the queerest people she had ever seen.
