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This was a wide circle of quiet water surrounded by the tall piles on which were built the greater houses, and by long wooden ____ with many steps and ladders going down to the surface of the lake.
Other folk were far away; and some of the younger people in the town openly doubted the existence of any dragon in the mountain, and laughed at the ____ and old women who said that they had seen him flying in the sky in their young days.
Wet straw was in his damp beard; he was so sore and stiff, so bruised and ____ he could hardly stand or stumble through the shallow water to lie groaning on the shore.
Horses and ponies had been sent round by ____ paths to meet them at their appointed landing-place.
Other folk were far away; and some of the younger people in the town openly doubted the existence of any dragon in the mountain, and laughed at the old men and ____ who said that they had seen him flying in the sky in their young days.
Only from the map did Bilbo know that away up there, where the stars of the ____ were already twinkling, the Running River came down into the lake from Dale and with the Forest River filled with deep waters what must once have been a great deep rocky valley.
They stayed with us for a ____.
The Elvenking was very powerful in those parts and the Master wished for no ____ with him, nor did he think much of old songs, giving his mind to trade and tolls, to cargoes and gold, to which habit he owed his position.
Wet straw was in his ____ beard; he was so sore and stiff, so bruised he could hardly stand or stumble through the shallow water to lie groaning on the shore.
"These are prisoners of our king that have escaped, wandering ____ dwarves that could not give any good account of themselves, sneaking through the woods and molesting our people!"