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1  Eleven o'clock came, and the tavern lights were put out; darkness everywhere, now.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  Huck was already upon his watch when the ferryboat's lights went glinting past the wharf.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  His face lighted with a happy solution of his thought; he put the bark hastily in his pocket.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  The place was grandly lighted, and everybody that was of any consequence in the village was there.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  Presently Jeff Thatcher hove in sight, and Tom's face lighted; he gazed a moment, and then turned sorrowfully away.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Well, where you see one of them blue lights flickering around, Tom, you can bet there's a ghost mighty close behind it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  At eight in the evening the schoolhouse was brilliantly lighted, and adorned with wreaths and festoons of foliage and flowers.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of star-gemmed water, unconscious of the tremendous event that was happening.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  By-and-by the procession went filing down the steep descent of the main avenue, the flickering rank of lights dimly revealing the lofty walls of rock almost to their point of junction sixty feet overhead.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defence followed, but the candle was soon knocked down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  Ten o'clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot-passengers disappeared, the village betook itself to its slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  So he went to the beetle and began a wary attack on it again; jumping at it from every point of a circle, lighting with his fore-paws within an inch of the creature, making even closer snatches at it with his teeth, and jerking his head till his ears flapped again.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
14  All the news that could be gained was that remotenesses of the cavern were being ransacked that had never been visited before; that every corner and crevice was going to be thoroughly searched; that wherever one wandered through the maze of passages, lights were to be seen flitting hither and thither in the distance, and shoutings and pistol-shots sent their hollow reverberations to the ear down the sombre aisles.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX