Quotes of 100 Common words from Classic

Well, about this time he was found in the river drownded, about twelve mile above town, so people said.

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.

I went up and set down on a log at the head of the island, and looked out on the big river and the black driftwood and away over to the town, three mile away, where there was three or four lights twinkling.

When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting and dropped over to the Missouri shore and went home to the town.

I said I believed my uncle Abner Moore would take care of me, and so that was why I struck out for this town of Goshen.

There was a clock on the middle of the mantelpiece, with a picture of a town painted on the bottom half of the glass front, and a round place in the middle of it for the sun, and you could see the pendulum swinging behind it.

The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town.

Boggs rode up before the biggest store in town, and bent his head down so he could see under the curtain of the awning and yells:.

They took Boggs to a little drug store, the crowd pressing around just the same, and the whole town following, and I rushed and got a good place at the window, where I was close to him and could see in.

THE news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come.

The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way.

They gripped us all, and marched us right along, straight for the graveyard, which was a mile and a half down the river, and the whole town at our heels, for we made noise enough, and it was only nine in the evening.

Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village, Huckleberry Finn, son of the town drunkard.

Smaller boys than himself flocked at his heels, as proud to be seen with him, and tolerated by him, as if he had been the drummer at the head of a procession or the elephant leading a menagerie into town.

Three rows of benches on each side and six rows in front of him were occupied by the dignitaries of the town and by the parents of the pupils.

And mind you, keep a lookout for Injun Joe, because he said he was going to drop into town and spy around once more for a chance to get his revenge.

The village was illuminated; nobody went to bed again; it was the greatest night the little town had ever seen.

When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly downtown, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature.

Tom got about, a little, on Thursday, was downtown Friday, and nearly as whole as ever Saturday; but Becky did not leave her room until Sunday, and then she looked as if she had passed through a wasting illness.