Magpie needs some relief from this constant ______, constant checking up.

Magpie returned to Crow Creek after months in ______.

Because it's a part of the condition of his parole that he ______ friends and relatives and exconvicts and just about everybody.

But the silence which ______ the place filled me with apprehension, and when we walked in the back door which hung open we saw people standing in the kitchen.

For although the band played all the year round on Sundays.______ season it was never the same.

She knew she needed them. but it was no ______ getting any: they'd be sure to break and they'd never keep on.

They stared as though they'd just come from dark little rooms or even-even ______!

A beautiful woman came along and ______ her bunch of violets, and a little boy ran after to hand them to her, and she took them and threw them away as if they'd been poisoned.

And yet it explained why she made such a ______ starting from home at just the same time each week.

Such a funny old man with long whiskers hobbled along in time to the music and was nearly ______ by four girls walking abreast.