1 Tom heaved a great sigh as she put her foot on the threshold.
2 This was the great Judge Thatcher, brother of their own lawyer.
3 Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle.
4 Then one more frock passed in at the gate, and Tom's heart gave a great bound.
5 Jeff Thatcher immediately went forward, to be familiar with the great man and be envied by the school.
6 As the school quieted down Tom made an honest effort to study, but the turmoil within him was too great.
7 The master, throned on high in his great splint-bottom arm-chair, was dozing, lulled by the drowsy hum of study.
8 It was a great many years ago, and I can scarcely remember anything about it, but I think it was in some foreign country.
9 Tom was therefore elevated to a place with the Judge and the other elect, and the great news was announced from headquarters.
10 He presently halted under a great elm, blew an answering blast, and then began to tiptoe and look warily out, this way and that.
11 They saw a fire smouldering upon a great raft a hundred yards above, and they went stealthily thither and helped themselves to a chunk.
12 They found the sharp new heap they were seeking, and ensconced themselves within the protection of three great elms that grew in a bunch within a few feet of the grave.
13 If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
14 They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought.
15 Tom, wiping his eyes with his sleeve, began to blubber out something about a resolution to escape from hard usage and lack of sympathy at home by roaming abroad into the great world never to return; and ended by hoping that Joe would not forget him.
16 But the pathos, the lesson, the moral of the great spectacle were lost upon the boy; he only thought of the conspicuousness of the principal character before the on-looking nations; his face lit with the thought, and he said to himself that he wished he could be that child, if it was a tame lion.
17 Only the older pupils managed to keep their tickets and stick to their tedious work long enough to get a Bible, and so the delivery of one of these prizes was a rare and noteworthy circumstance; the successful pupil was so great and conspicuous for that day that on the spot every scholar's heart was fired with a fresh ambition that often lasted a couple of weeks.
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