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1  Now wash and dress yourselves.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  When Tom awoke, Sid was dressed and gone.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  There was a rustling of dresses, and the standing congregation sat down.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Within five minutes he was dressed and down-stairs, feeling sore and drowsy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Huck was given a seat and the old man and his brace of tall sons speedily dressed themselves.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  But Tom was uneasy, nevertheless, and was alarmed to see Joe go sullenly on with his dressing.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Huckleberry was always dressed in the cast-off clothes of full-grown men, and they were in perennial bloom and fluttering with rags.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Tom contrived to scarify the cupboard with it, and was arranging to begin on the bureau, when he was called off to dress for Sunday-school.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  But there was no whispering in the house; only the funereal rustling of dresses as the women gathered to their seats disturbed the silence there.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  The Thatchers were there, the Harpers, the Rogerses, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, the minister, the editor, and a great many more, and all dressed in their best.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  The boys dressed themselves, hid their accoutrements, and went off grieving that there were no outlaws any more, and wondering what modern civilization could claim to have done to compensate for their loss.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  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