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1  He took up his brush and went tranquilly to work.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  The next moment two men brushed by him, and one seemed to have something under his arm.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
5  Tom surveyed his last touch with the eye of an artist, then he gave his brush another gentle sweep and surveyed the result, as before.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  The widow's servants kept him clean and neat, combed and brushed, and they bedded him nightly in unsympathetic sheets that had not one little spot or stain which he could press to his heart and know for a friend.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  The girl "put him to rights" after he had dressed himself; she buttoned his neat roundabout up to his chin, turned his vast shirt collar down over his shoulders, brushed him off and crowned him with his speckled straw hat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Mary took him in hand, and when she was done with him he was a man and a brother, without distinction of color, and his saturated hair was neatly brushed, and its short curls wrought into a dainty and symmetrical general effect.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
10  Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, disclosing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII