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1  They've hid treasures here somewhere.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Whoever finds one of these hid treasures, it belongs to him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  The men contemplated the treasure awhile in blissful silence.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  Presently he bethought him of a treasure he had and got it out.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
5  In fact, everything seemed to be drifting just in the right direction, now; the treasure must be still in No.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  THERE comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
8  If his notions of hidden treasure had been analyzed, they would have been found to consist of a handful of real dimes and a bushel of vague, splendid, ungraspable dollars.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  Tom's excitement enabled him to keep awake until a pretty late hour, and he had good hopes of hearing Huck's "maow," and of having his treasure to astonish Becky and the picnickers with, next day; but he was disappointed.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  Huck was irritated to think he had been such a goose and betrayed such a suspicious excitement, for he had dropped the idea that the parcel brought from the tavern was the treasure, as soon as he had heard the talk at the widow's stile.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  They had a smoke and a chat in the shade, and then dug a little in their last hole, not with great hope, but merely because Tom said there were so many cases where people had given up a treasure after getting down within six inches of it, and then somebody else had come along and turned it up with a single thrust of a shovel.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  Presently he picked up a straw and began trying to balance it on his nose, with his head tilted far back; and as he moved from side to side, in his efforts, he edged nearer and nearer toward the pansy; finally his bare foot rested upon it, his pliant toes closed upon it, and he hopped away with the treasure and disappeared round the corner.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
14  The boys were not able to remember that their remarks had possessed weight before; but now their sayings were treasured and repeated; everything they did seemed somehow to be regarded as remarkable; they had evidently lost the power of doing and saying commonplace things; moreover, their past history was raked up and discovered to bear marks of conspicuous originality.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV