1 The sport grew in interest momently.
2 Tom did not feel a strong interest in his studies.
3 In the fulness of time the interesting occasion arrived.
4 He no longer took an interest in war, nor even in piracy.
5 When the interest in art began to wane, the two fell to talking.
6 The old lady was bending down, Tom watching, with interest emphasized by anxiety.
7 Becky roused up from her lethargy of distress and showed good interest in the proceedings.
8 The boy could not have shown a wilder, heartier interest, if she had built a fire under him.
9 Then the girl's interest began to fasten itself upon the work and she forgot everything else.
10 Tom's heart ached to be free, or else to have something of interest to do to pass the dreary time.
11 He put down his pail, took the white alley, and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage was being unwound.
12 This new interest was a valued novelty in whistling, which he had just acquired from a negro, and he was suffering to practise it un-disturbed.
13 ONE of the reasons why Tom's mind had drifted away from its secret troubles was, that it had found a new and weighty matter to interest itself about.
14 He was now become, to them, the most balefully interesting object they had ever looked upon, and they could not take their fascinated eyes from his face.
15 While one boy was worrying the tick with absorbing interest, the other would look on with interest as strong, the two heads bowed together over the slate, and the two souls dead to all things else.
16 The boy ran around and stopped within a foot or two of the flower, and then shaded his eyes with his hand and began to look down street as if he had discovered something of interest going on in that direction.
17 Becky resumed her picture inspections with Alfred, but as the minutes dragged along and no Tom came to suffer, her triumph began to cloud and she lost interest; gravity and absentmindedness followed, and then melancholy; two or three times she pricked up her ear at a footstep, but it was a false hope; no Tom came.
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