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1  It lays in de way Sollermun was raised.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV.
2  De dream say let Balum inves' de ten cents en he'd make a raise for me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
3  By and by he raised up part way and listened, with his head to one side.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI.
4  He said he'd cowhide me till I was black and blue if I didn't raise some money for him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V.
5  The river went on raising and raising for ten or twelve days, till at last it was over the banks.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX.
6  I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
7  Every time he got money he got drunk; and every time he got drunk he raised Cain around town; and every time he raised Cain he got jailed.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI.
8  Yes, just as that man has got that son raised at last, and ready to go to work and begin to do suthin for him and give him a rest, the law up and goes for him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI.
9  Jim made a floor for the wigwam, and raised it a foot or more above the level of the raft, so now the blankets and all the traps was out of reach of steamboat waves.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
10  He raised considerable row about it, but me and Jim stuck to it and wouldn't budge; so he was for crawling out and setting the raft loose himself; but we wouldn't let him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL.
11  I just expected there'd be somebody laying down in it, because people often done that to fool folks, and when a chap had pulled a skiff out most to it they'd raise up and laugh at him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII.
12  And look at Charles Second, and Louis Fourteen, and Louis Fifteen, and James Second, and Edward Second, and Richard Third, and forty more; besides all them Saxon heptarchies that used to rip around so in old times and raise Cain.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII.
13  The houses had little gardens around them, but they didn't seem to raise hardly anything in them but jimpson weeds, and sunflowers, and ash-piles, and old curled-up boots and shoes, and pieces of bottles, and rags, and played-out tin-ware.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI.
14  So he raised up his bed and slid the chain off of the bed-leg, and wrapt it round and round his neck, and we crawled out through our hole and down there, and Jim and me laid into that grindstone and walked her along like nothing; and Tom superintended.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII.
15  Tom said he was right behind Jim's bed now, and we'd dig in under it, and when we got through there couldn't nobody in the cabin ever know there was any hole there, because Jim's counter-pin hung down most to the ground, and you'd have to raise it up and look under to see the hole.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI.
16  But it warn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; so now he raised a howl that fairly made a body's hair raise, and down he went in the dirt, and rolled there, and held his toes; and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI.
17  But it warn't good judgment, because that was the boot that had a couple of his toes leaking out of the front end of it; so now he raised a howl that fairly made a body's hair raise, and down he went in the dirt, and rolled there, and held his toes; and the cussing he done then laid over anything he had ever done previous.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI.
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