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1 And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn't got to the end of it yet.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X.
2 And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER VIII.
3 I said it looked to me like all the signs was about bad luck, and so I asked him if there warn't any good-luck signs.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER VIII.
4 I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER I.
5 I reached for some of it as quick as I could to throw over my left shoulder and keep off the bad luck, but Miss Watson was in ahead of me, and crossed me off.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER IV.
6 There is ways to keep off some kinds of bad luck, but this wasn't one of them kind; so I never tried to do anything, but just poked along low-spirited and on the watch-out.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER IV.
7 The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to understand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it.'
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XV.
8 He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha'nt us; he said a man that warn't buried was more likely to go a-ha'nting around than one that was planted and comfortable.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER X.
9 You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard anybody say it was any way to keep off bad luck when you'd killed a spider.
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER I.