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1  The night was growing cloudy and dark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
2  You bet I'll follow him, if it's dark, Huck.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  So he lay still, and stared up into the dark.
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  Well, if it's pretty dark I reckon I'll track him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  At last he rose up sighing and departed in the darkness.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  You know something about that Spaniard that you want to keep dark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  He would have liked to fall down and worship him, if it were in the dark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  They sprang away, stumbling over roots and among vines in the dark, no two plunging in the same direction.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Tom skimmed up the shore through the long twilight, chatting cheerily with Huck, and landed shortly after dark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
12  Now you get hold of all the doorkeys you can find, and I'll nip all of auntie's, and the first dark night we'll go there and try 'em.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  They all said they had not noticed whether Tom and Becky were on board the ferryboat on the homeward trip; it was dark; no one thought of inquiring if any one was missing.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  He reeled and fell partly upon Potter, flooding him with his blood, and in the same moment the clouds blotted out the dreadful spectacle and the two frightened boys went speeding away in the dark.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her pet vanity to believe she was endowed with a talent for dark and mysterious diplomacy, and she loved to contemplate her most transparent devices as marvels of low cunning.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
16  You take and split the bean, and cut the wart so as to get some blood, and then you put the blood on one piece of the bean and take and dig a hole and bury it 'bout midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the bean.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
17  But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
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