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1  There was not a breath stirring.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  I wish I may never stir if it does.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  I don't like to stir 'em up, either.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  The stirring event was well canvassed.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  His comrade stirred him once or twice and he became quiet.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  Not a leaf stirred; not a sound obtruded upon great Nature's meditation.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  Hardly any temptation could persuade the boy to stir abroad after nightfall.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  As soon as we lost the sound of their feet we quit chasing, and went down and stirred up the constables.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  THE reader may rest satisfied that Tom's and Huck's windfall made a mighty stir in the poor little village of St. Petersburg.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
10  All Nature was wide awake and stirring, now; long lances of sunlight pierced down through the dense foliage far and near, and a few butterflies came fluttering upon the scene.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Tom stirred up the other pirates and they all clattered away with a shout, and in a minute or two were stripped and chasing after and tumbling over each other in the shallow limpid water of the white sandbar.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  There was not even a zephyr stirring; the dead noonday heat had even stilled the songs of the birds; nature lay in a trance that was broken by no sound but the occasional far-off hammering of a wood-pecker, and this seemed to render the pervading silence and sense of loneliness the more profound.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII