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1  No, I won't ever tell anybody.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Girls' faces always tell on them.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  "Now I know you'll tell me," said the lady.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  They ain't any such men now, I can tell you.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  The bark I had wrote on to tell you we'd gone pirating.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  The Welshman had to tell the story of the night to the visitors.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  "Please don't ever tell I told you," were Huck's first words when he got in.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
8  You only just tell a boy you won't ever have anybody but him, ever ever ever, and then you kiss and that's all.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  She started homeward, now, intending to find Tom and tell him; Tom would be thankful and their troubles would be healed.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  How long afterward it was that Becky came to a slow consciousness that she was crying in Tom's arms, neither could tell.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  There's another that you're more beholden to than you are to me and my boys, maybe, but he don't allow me to tell his name.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  He had a secret which he was not ready to tell, yet, but if this mutinous depression was not broken up soon, he would have to bring it out.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  Pap would come back to thish-yer town some day and get his claws on it if I didn't hurry up, and I tell you he'd clean it out pretty quick.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
15  We can't ever tell the right time, and besides this kind of thing's too awful, here this time of night with witches and ghosts a-fluttering around so.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
16  They wound this way and that, far down into the secret depths of the cave, made another mark, and branched off in search of novelties to tell the upper world about.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
17  Nothing offered for some little time, and then he remembered hearing the doctor tell about a certain thing that laid up a patient for two or three weeks and threatened to make him lose a finger.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
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