forty-five
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That single, thirteen-letter spirit word was translated by a medium’s assistant into a paragraph containing forty-five words of English!
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“Thirty.eight, thirty-nine, blackberry, huckleberry, forty-five, strawberry, thirty-two, raspberry . . .” So it is very likely that he took fewer than fifty steps, or perhaps many more.
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Three times before two forty-five, when class was finally over for the day, Bat’s group said, “Mr. Grayson, Bat won’t let us help!”
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“Wow, I didn’t go to the opera until I was forty-five years old,” Minna said.
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Boomer said Mrs. Preston fainted when Eugene got to forty-five walnuts, but she didn’t really faint.
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