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1  So I judged they had our gang in a pretty tight place right at the outstart.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX.
2  Providence had stood by me this fur all right, but I was hard and tight aground now.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
3  But he never meddled at all; just slid the lid along as soft as mush, and screwed it down tight and fast.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII.
4  There was a noble good lot of them down cellar, and it took us a whole hour, but we done the job tight and good and shipshape.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII.
5  Just as I was passing a place where a kind of a cowpath crossed the crick, here comes a couple of men tearing up the path as tight as they could foot it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX.
6  Living in a house and sleeping in a bed pulled on me pretty tight mostly, but before the cold weather I used to slide out and sleep in the woods sometimes, and so that was a rest to me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV.
7  I stuck tight to the wall and kept mighty still, though quivery; and I wondered what them fellows would say to me if they catched me; and I tried to think what I'd better do if they did catch me.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI.
8  So me and the duke went up to the village, and hunted around there for the king, and by and by we found him in the back room of a little low doggery, very tight, and a lot of loafers bullyragging him for sport, and he a-cussing and a-threatening with all his might, and so tight he couldn't walk, and couldn't do nothing to them.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI.
9  I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't had no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better and actuly safer than a lie.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII.