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1  And besides," I says, "we might borrow something worth having out of the captain's stateroom.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
2  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.
3  I called it borrowing, because that was what pap always called it; but Tom said it warn't borrowing, it was stealing.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
4  We warn't going to borrow it when there warn't anybody around, the way pap would do, for that might set people after us.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
5  But they sailed into digging anyway by the flicker of the lightning, and sent a man to the nearest house, a half a mile off, to borrow one.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.
6  Mornings before daylight I slipped into cornfields and borrowed a watermelon, or a mushmelon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or things of that kind.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
7  Along during the morning I borrowed a sheet and a white shirt off of the clothes-line; and I found an old sack and put them in it, and we went down and got the fox-fire, and put that in too.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
8  Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
9  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.
10  Towards the middle of the day the undertaker come with his man, and they set the coffin in the middle of the room on a couple of chairs, and then set all our chairs in rows, and borrowed more from the neighbors till the hall and the parlor and the dining-room was full.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
11  I borrowed three dollars from Judge Thatcher, and pap took it and got drunk, and went a-blowing around and cussing and whooping and carrying on; and he kept it up all over town, with a tin pan, till most midnight; then they jailed him, and next day they had him before court, and jailed him again for a week.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V.