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If this blithering wizard doesn't go away at once, and if he ever so much as paddles in the sea again, I shall COME OUT; and I shall eat him first, and then I shall knock everything to dripping smithereens.
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The Sea-serpent, speaking of Artaxerxes in
Roverandom
(It took me awhile to figure out 'smithereens' - not exactly an everyday word! After that, it was easy.)
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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