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1 The joy of the prisoners was almost overwhelming.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXI
2 The prisoner had searched them out and eaten them.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXXIII
3 Joe took a pin out of his lapel and began to assist in exercising the prisoner.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER VII
4 During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXII
5 But with the closing sentence his hand began to curve and steal forward; and the instant the "Amen" was out the fly was a prisoner of war.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER V
6 Tom enclosed the tick in the percussion-cap box that had lately been the pinchbug's prison, and the boys separated, each feeling wealthier than before.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER V
7 By the oaths of citizens whose simple word is above suspicion, we have fastened this awful crime, beyond all possibility of question, upon the unhappy prisoner at the bar.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XXIII
8 Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER III
9 And when he had finished and still stood alive and whole, their wavering impulse to break their oath and save the poor betrayed prisoner's life faded and vanished away, for plainly this miscreant had sold himself to Satan and it would be fatal to meddle with the property of such a power as that.
The Adventures of Tom SawyerBy Mark Twain ContextHighlight In CHAPTER XI