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1  Most everybody was on the boat.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
2  I said I had got it on the boat.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
3  Because she's a big Orleans boat, and I was afeard she mightn't stop there.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
4  The boat floated on and went out of sight around the shoulder of the island.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
5  He flung a bag of something into the boat, and then got in himself and set down.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII.
6  When we struck the boat she was about done loading, and pretty soon she got off.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
7  He went up-town with the man I was telling you of, to get a boat and see if they could borrow another gun.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI.
8  I didn't rightly know what to say, because I didn't know whether the boat would be coming up the river or down.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
9  The door slammed to because it was on the careened side; and in a half second I was in the boat, and Jim come tumbling after me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII.
10  I took the canoe out from the shore a little piece, and took a look; but if there was a boat around I couldn't see it, for stars and shadows ain't good to see by.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI.
11  I crawfished as fast as I could about two yards, but the boat slanted so that I couldn't make very good time; so to keep from getting run over and catched I crawled into a stateroom on the upper side.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
12  The minute I was far enough above the town to see I could make the towhead, I begun to look sharp for a boat to borrow, and the first time the lightning showed me one that wasn't chained I snatched it and shoved.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.
13  If a boat was to come along we was going to take to the canoe and break for the Illinois shore; and it was well a boat didn't come, for we hadn't ever thought to put the gun in the canoe, or a fishing-line, or anything to eat.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
14  Quick, Jim, it ain't no time for fooling around and moaning; there's a gang of murderers in yonder, and if we don't hunt up their boat and set her drifting down the river so these fellows can't get away from the wreck there's one of 'em going to be in a bad fix.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
15  Of course there was a booming current; and of course that boat started her engines again ten seconds after she stopped them, for they never cared much for raftsmen; so now she was churning along up the river, out of sight in the thick weather, though I could hear her.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
16  When we was three or four hundred yards down-stream we see the lantern show like a little spark at the texas door for a second, and we knowed by that that the rascals had missed their boat, and was beginning to understand that they was in just as much trouble now as Jim Turner was.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII.
17  A man up and offered me ten cents to help him pull a skiff over the river and back to fetch a sheep, and so I went along; but when we was dragging him to the boat, and the man left me a-holt of the rope and went behind him to shove him along, he was too strong for me and jerked loose and run, and we after him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
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