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1  She resurrected nothing but the cat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
2  We will produce the skeleton of that cat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Huckleberry Finn was there, with his dead cat.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Oh, Tom, they can see in the dark, same as cats.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  This was putting the thing in a new light; what was cruelty to a cat might be cruelty to a boy, too.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  That Injun devil wouldn't make any more of drownding us than a couple of cats, if we was to squeak 'bout this and they didn't hang him.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  It seemed to Tom that his schoolmates never would get done holding inquests on dead cats, and thus keeping his trouble present to his mind.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  No longer ago than yesterday noon, my Tom took and filled the cat full of Pain-killer, and I did think the cretur would tear the house down.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eyeing the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  He drifted listlessly down the street and found Jim Hollis acting as judge in a juvenile court that was trying a cat for murder, in the presence of her victim, a bird.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  In an instant both boys were rolling and tumbling in the dirt, gripped together like cats; and for the space of a minute they tugged and tore at each other's hair and clothes, punched and scratched each other's nose, and covered themselves with dust and glory.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
12  There was a garret above, pierced with a scuttle over his head; and down through this scuttle came a cat, suspended around the haunches by a string; she had a rag tied about her head and jaws to keep her from mewing; as she slowly descended she curved upward and clawed at the string, she swung downward and clawed at the intangible air.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI