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Match each term to it's sentence.
And Aslan, not at all ____ his pace, rushed straight as a bullet towards it. "The Witch's home!" he cried. "Now, children, hold tight."
Because they had no boat to take them across the river, the pioneers began ____ their bodies to the other side slowly.
The moon was getting low and thin clouds were passing across her, but still they could see the shape of the great Lion lying dead in his ____. And down they both knelt in the wet grass and kissed his cold face and stroked his beautiful fur—what was left of it—and cried till they could cry no more.
And when they saw his face without it they burst out crying again and kissed it and ____ it and wiped away the blood and the foam as well as they could.
When he approached the ____ hedge, it melted away and became a flowering path.
For with wild cries and a noise of ____ pipes and shrill horns blowing, the whole of that horrid rabble came sweeping off the hill-top and down the slope right past their hiding-place.
And you are riding not on a road nor in a park nor even on the downs but right across Narnia, in spring, down solemn avenues of beech and across sunny glades of oak, through wild ____ of snow-white cherry trees…
They could see the mice nibbling away; dozens and dozens, even hundreds, of little field mice. And at last, one by one, the ropes were all ____ through.
But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and the darkness before Time dawned, she would have read there a different ____. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards.
And now it no longer looked like a toy castle but rose frowning in front of them. No face looked over the ____ and the gates were fast shut.