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1 "T'other" was a ragged, unkempt creature, with nothing very pleasant in his face.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XVI
2 When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly downtown, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXII
3 A tumblebug came next, heaving sturdily at its ball, and Tom touched the creature, to see it shut its legs against its body and pretend to be dead.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XIV
4 The storm culminated in one matchless effort that seemed likely to tear the island to pieces, burn it up, drown it to the treetops, blow it away, and deafen every creature in it, all at one and the same moment.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XVI
5 Under the roof vast knots of bats had packed themselves together, thousands in a bunch; the lights disturbed the creatures and they came flocking down by hundreds, squeaking and darting furiously at the candles.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXI
6 The creature probably glowed with a gratitude that amounted to prayer, too, at this moment, but it was premature: for when he started thankfully to travel off, Tom turned him aside with a pin and made him take a new direction.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER VII
7 So he went to the beetle and began a wary attack on it again; jumping at it from every point of a circle, lighting with his fore-paws within an inch of the creature, making even closer snatches at it with his teeth, and jerking his head till his ears flapped again.
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