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1  All the rest of the house was filled with non-participating scholars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  A puzzled amazement awoke in every face in the house, not even excepting Potter's.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  Then he went tearing around the house again spreading chaos and destruction in his path.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Sid had better judgment than to utter the thought that was in his mind as he left the house.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  He began to find himself hanging around her father's house, nights, and feeling very miserable.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  But he made a sad business of it with his unsteady hand, and a smothered titter rippled over the house.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
7  Then Tom marched out of the house and over the hills and far away, to return to school no more that day.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  The perplexity and dissatisfaction of the house expressed itself in murmurs and provoked a reproof from the bench.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house but he had the house's silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
10  Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
11  In that wise he was borne across the house and deposited in his own seat, under a peppering fire of giggles from the whole school.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
12  The Sunday-school children distributed themselves about the house and occupied pews with their parents, so as to be under supervision.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  No longer ago than yesterday noon, my Tom took and filled the cat full of Pain-killer, and I did think the cretur would tear the house down.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  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
15  Then they sat together, with a slate before them, and Tom gave Becky the pencil and held her hand in his, guiding it, and so created another surprising house.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
16  No need of the as yet un-dreamed-of telegraph; the tale flew from man to man, from group to group, from house to house, with little less than telegraphic speed.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
17  He kept up this grotesque foolishness for some time; but by-and-by, while he was in the midst of some dangerous gymnastic performances, he glanced aside and saw that the little girl was wending her way toward the house.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
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