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1  Maybe Bill he gives him a chaw; maybe he lies and says he ain't got none.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
2  So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III.
3  'En all you wuz thinkin' 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV.
4  I reckon you ain't used to lying, it don't seem to come handy; what you want is practice.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.
5  I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I.
6  She done it so beautiful it was good to hear; and I wished I could tell her a thousand lies, so she could do it again.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
7  He said it was a sight better than lying tied a couple of years every day, and trembling all over every time there was a sound.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV.
8  And he always let on that Peter wrote him the things; but that was a lie: he got every blessed one of them out of that young flathead that we canoed up to the steamboat.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV.
9  Them poor things was that glad and happy it made my heart ache to see them getting fooled and lied to so, but I didn't see no safe way for me to chip in and change the general tune.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
10  They made the king tell his yarn, and they made the old gentleman tell his'n; and anybody but a lot of prejudiced chuckleheads would a seen that the old gentleman was spinning truth and t'other one lies.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.
11  I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was; but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
12  I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't had no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better and actuly safer than a lie.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII.