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1  I was awful scared," said Huck, "and I run.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
2  He would run away from home and enter upon it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  I'd 'most be glad you'd run off and acted so bad.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  Potter started on a trot that quickly increased to a run.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  Oh, anybody can run a tick down that don't belong to them.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
6  But hunger and wretchedness rise superior to fears in the long run.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  All along I've been wanting to be a robber, but I knew I'd got to have a thing like this, and where to run across it was the bother.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Then he tiptoed his way cautiously among the trees till he felt that he was out of hearing, and straightway broke into a keen run in the direction of the sandbar.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  He said to himself that if he had strength enough to get back to the spring he would stay there, and nothing should tempt him to run the risk of meeting Injun Joe again.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand, and lie there and cover themselves up with it, and by and by break for the water again and go through the original performance once more.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI