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1  But I, like a fool, never thought.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Then there was a season of waiting anxiety that weighed upon Huck's spirits like a mountain.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Well, if they like it, Tom, all right; but I don't want to be a king and have only just a given name, like a nigger.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  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 Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  He had been months winning her; she had confessed hardly a week ago; he had been the happiest and the proudest boy in the world only seven short days, and here in one instant of time she had gone out of his heart like a casual stranger whose visit is done.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  But when he emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the clean territory stopped short at his chin and his jaws, like a mask; below and beyond this line there was a dark expanse of unirrigated soil that spread downward in front and backward around his neck.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV