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1  Huck's face lost its tranquil content, and took a melancholy cast.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  And then there came, mingling with his half-formed dreams, a most melancholy caterwauling.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Yet notwithstanding all this, the boy grew more and more melancholy and pale and dejected.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Aunt Polly had drooped into a settled melancholy, and her gray hair had grown almost white.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  The boy's soul was steeped in melancholy; his feelings were in happy accord with his surroundings.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
6  He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
7  Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  In the afternoon Becky Thatcher found herself moping about the deserted schoolhouse yard, and feeling very melancholy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly downtown, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII