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1  Prisoners ain't ever without rats.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
2  That's the one which the prisoner has to scrabble on the wall.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
3  Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
4  But he said I didn't need it to get out of prison with; there's where the difference was.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
5  Prisoners don't have geese running around the donjon-keep to pull pens out of, you muggins.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
6  He said if he ever got out this time he wouldn't ever be a prisoner again, not for a salary.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX.
7  And it's usual for the prisoner's mother to change clothes with him, and she stays in, and he slides out in her clothes.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX.
8  He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
9  He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
10  He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
11  But he had to have it; Tom said he'd got to; there warn't no case of a state prisoner not scrabbling his inscription to leave behind, and his coat of arms.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
12  Watermelon shows man, lock shows prisoner; and it ain't likely there's two prisoners on such a little plantation, and where the people's all so kind and good.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV.
13  Watermelon shows man, lock shows prisoner; and it ain't likely there's two prisoners on such a little plantation, and where the people's all so kind and good.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV.
14  So I let it go at that, though I couldn't see no advantage in my representing a prisoner if I got to set down and chaw over a lot of gold-leaf distinctions like that every time I see a chance to hog a watermelon.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
15  It ain't no crime in a prisoner to steal the thing he needs to get away with, Tom said; it's his right; and so, as long as we was representing a prisoner, we had a perfect right to steal anything on this place we had the least use for to get ourselves out of prison with.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
16  It ain't no crime in a prisoner to steal the thing he needs to get away with, Tom said; it's his right; and so, as long as we was representing a prisoner, we had a perfect right to steal anything on this place we had the least use for to get ourselves out of prison with.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
17  If we was prisoners it would, because then we'd have as many years as we wanted, and no hurry; and we wouldn't get but a few minutes to dig, every day, while they was changing watches, and so our hands wouldn't get blistered, and we could keep it up right along, year in and year out, and do it right, and the way it ought to be done.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI.
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