1 Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER II 2 He flew along unfrequented alleys, and shortly found himself at his aunt's back fence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XV 3 Tom came up to the fence and leaned on it, grieving, and hoping she would tarry yet awhile longer.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER III 4 He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER II 5 But his face lit up, right away, for she tossed a pansy over the fence a moment before she disappeared.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER III 6 It had a crazy board fence around it, which leaned inward in places, and outward the rest of the time, but stood upright nowhere.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER IX 7 When she found the entire fence white-washed, and not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and recoated, and even a streak added to the ground, her astonishment was almost unspeakable.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER III 8 There was a whiz as of a missile in the air, mingled with the murmur of a curse, a sound as of shivering glass followed, and a small, vague form went over the fence and shot away in the gloom.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER III 9 They raged around Sid like a hail-storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven clods had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER III 10 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 TwainGet Context In CHAPTER II 11 There in the middle of the moonlit valley below them stood the "ha'nted" house, utterly isolated, its fences gone long ago, rank weeds smothering the very doorsteps, the chimney crumbled to ruin, the window-sashes vacant, a corner of the roof caved in.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXV 12 He returned, now, and hung about the fence till nightfall, "showing off," as before; but the girl never exhibited herself again, though Tom comforted himself a little with the hope that she had been near some window, meantime, and been aware of his attentions.
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