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Although a human shape I wear, mother I never had. By every miss I'm valued much, still my cruel fate is such by boys I am often despised. What am I?
I get thrown in the air and will fall down. I get thrown down and I will rise in the air. What am I?
If you have me, you want to share me. Once you share me, you won't have me. What am I?
What is black when it's clean and white when it's dirty?
What word is pronounced the same if you take away four of its five letters?
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.