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1  He had a citified air about him that ate into Tom's vitals.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
2  So she kept silence, and went about her affairs with a troubled heart.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  He took a good scolding about clodding Sid, and did not seem to mind it in the least.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
4  That was agreeable, so they chewed it turn about, and dangled their legs against the bench in excess of contentment.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  Tom tried to put his arm about her neck, but she pushed him away and turned her face to the wall, and went on crying.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  It was a great many years ago, and I can scarcely remember anything about it, but I think it was in some foreign country.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  He was fully as uncomfortable as he looked; for there was a restraint about whole clothes and cleanliness that galled him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
9  The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
11  Tom Sawyer went home quite cheerful, thinking to himself that there was some satisfaction about divine service when there was a bit of variety in it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Becky hesitating, Tom took silence for consent, and passed his arm about her waist and whispered the tale ever so softly, with his mouth close to her ear.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  The church's high-backed, uncushioned pews would seat about three hundred persons; the edifice was but a small, plain affair, with a sort of pine board tree-box on top of it for a steeple.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
15  This was lucky; he was about to begin to groan, as a "starter," as he called it, when it occurred to him that if he came into court with that argument, his aunt would pull it out, and that would hurt.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
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16  Tom was about to take refuge in a lie, when he saw two long tails of yellow hair hanging down a back that he recognized by the electric sympathy of love; and by that form was the only vacant place on the girls' side of the school-house.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
17  He returned, now, and hung about the fence till nightfall, "showing off," as before; but the girl never exhibited herself again, though Tom comforted himself a little with the hope that she had been near some window, meantime, and been aware of his attentions.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
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