You are given an English sentence with a blank, and you need to predict the missing word. After completing, the whole sentence should be gramatically correct and non-ambiguous.
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Question: or a hollow where wild plums hung out their filmy bloom the air was sweet with the breath of many apple orchards and the meadows ____ away in the distance to horizon mists of pearl and purple while the little birds sang as if it were the one day of summer in all the year

Answer: sloped


Question: matthew barely noting that it was a girl sidled past her as quickly as ____ without looking at her had he looked he could hardly have failed to notice the tense rigidity and expectation of her attitude and expression she was sitting there waiting for something or somebody

Answer: possible


Question: so in the end we ____ to ask missus spencer to pick us out one when she went over to get her little girl we heard last week she was going so we sent her word by richard spencer's folks at carmody to bring us a smart likely boy of about ten or eleven we decided that would be the best age

Answer:
decided


