Promised quiz

Good evening again! It seems I work only at night!)))Here is my promised quiz with new words!

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1.     He could hear nothing, but the drip, drip on the _______ carpet. ( The Picture Of Dorian Gray by Wilde, Oscar)

2.     His manner was not __________. (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan)

3.     Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty ___________ shape of many species of sharks.  (Moby Dick  by Melville, Herman)