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1  Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII.
2  The other fellow was about thirty, and dressed about as ornery.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX.
3  I felt so ornery and low down and mean that I says to myself, my mind's made up; I'll hive that money for them or bust.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
4  The more I studied about this the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked and low-down and ornery I got to feeling.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
5  He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
6  I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III.
7  But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn't, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they'd make Jim feel it all the time, and so he'd feel ornery and disgraced.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.