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1  But they ducked their heads, and put their fingers in their mouths, and hid behind her.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
2  Strange niggers would stand with their mouths open and look him all over, same as if he was a wonder.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II.
3  She stopped, with her mouth open and her hands up; and as for me, I wished I was in Jeruslem or somewheres.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII.
4  And I explained all about how we blowed out a cylinder-head at the mouth of White River, and it took us three days to fix it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
5  I reckoned I better start in on my plan straight off without fooling around, because I wanted to stop Jim's mouth till these fellows could get away.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
6  Sometimes the widow would take me one side and talk about Providence in a way to make a body's mouth water; but maybe next day Miss Watson would take hold and knock it all down again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III.
7  By one of the parrots was a cat made of crockery, and a crockery dog by the other; and when you pressed down on them they squeaked, but didn't open their mouths nor look different nor interested.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
8  I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
9  I didn't want to set her to thinking about her troubles again; and I couldn't seem to get my mouth to tell her what would make her see that corpse laying in the coffin with that bag of money on his stomach.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII.
10  And the minute the words were out of his mouth somebody over in the crowd struck up the doxolojer, and everybody joined in with all their might, and it just warmed you up and made you feel as good as church letting out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
11  I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
12  He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the swords and guns all scoured up for it, though they was only lath and broomsticks, and you might scour at them till you rotted, and then they warn't worth a mouthful of ashes more than what they was before.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III.
13  Jim lit out, and was a-coming for me with both arms spread, he was so full of joy; but when I glimpsed him in the lightning my heart shot up in my mouth and I went overboard backwards; for I forgot he was old King Lear and a drownded A-rab all in one, and it most scared the livers and lights out of me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.