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1  We'll drop this thing for today, and play.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
3  So he played with him every time he got a chance.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
4  I'd made sure you'd played hookey and been a-swimming.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
5  I play with frogs so much that I've always got considerable many warts.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
6  And now, as usual of late, he hung about the gate of the schoolyard instead of playing with his comrades.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  He saw her and they had an exhausting good time playing "hispy" and "gully-keeper" with a crowd of their schoolmates.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  He had but one marring thought; he was willing that the dog should play with his pinchbug, but he did not think it was upright in him to carry it off.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
9  Tom was like the rest of the respectable boys, in that he envied Huckleberry his gaudy outcast condition, and was under strict orders not to play with him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  So they played Robin Hood all the afternoon, now and then casting a yearning eye down upon the haunted house and passing a remark about the morrow's prospects and possibilities there.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  He moped to school gloomy and sad, and took his flogging, along with Joe Harper, for playing hookey the day before, with the air of one whose heart was busy with heavier woes and wholly dead to trifles.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X