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1  He had said the truth: dead or alive, nobody minded Ben Gunn.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: 32
2  "Next best thing to tell the truth," muttered Captain Smollett.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: 21
3  Long John told the story from first to last, with a great deal of spirit and the most perfect truth.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: 8
4  All the stores, I observed, came from our stock, and I could see the truth of Silver's words the night before.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: 31
5  All this time I had heard the sound of loud voices from the cabin, but to say truth, my mind had been so entirely taken up with other thoughts that I had scarcely given ear.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: 23
6  The shores of North Inlet were as thickly wooded as those of the southern anchorage, but the space was longer and narrower and more like, what in truth it was, the estuary of a river.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: 26
7  My friends, then, were still alive, and though I partly believed the truth of Silver's statement, that the cabin party were incensed at me for my desertion, I was more relieved than distressed by what I heard.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: 28
8  Or rather, I suppose the truth was this, that all hands were disaffected by the example of the ringleaders--only some more, some less; and a few, being good fellows in the main, could neither be led nor driven any further.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: 13
9  Now, to tell you the truth, from the very first mention of Long John in Squire Trelawney's letter I had taken a fear in my mind that he might prove to be the very one-legged sailor whom I had watched for so long at the old Benbow.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: 8