1 The two marbles lay within a foot of each other.
2 When the interest in art began to wane, the two fell to talking.
3 Within two minutes, or even less, he had forgotten all his troubles.
4 The two boys were sworn friends all the week, and embattled enemies on Saturdays.
5 The new boy took two broad coppers out of his pocket and held them out with derision.
6 In a little while the two met at the bottom of the lane, and when they reached the school they had it all to themselves.
7 Tom partly uncovered a dismal caricature of a house with two gable ends to it and a corkscrew of smoke issuing from the chimney.
8 Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two.
9 He crossed a small "branch" two or three times, because of a prevailing juvenile superstition that to cross water baffled pursuit.
10 Finally a spade struck upon the coffin with a dull woody accent, and within another minute or two the men had hoisted it out on the ground.
11 A tremendous whack came down on Tom's shoulders, and its duplicate on Joe's; and for the space of two minutes the dust continued to fly from the two jackets and the whole school to enjoy it.
12 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.
13 While one boy was worrying the tick with absorbing interest, the other would look on with interest as strong, the two heads bowed together over the slate, and the two souls dead to all things else.
14 It was the most stunning surprise of the decade, and so profound was the sensation that it lifted the new hero up to the judicial one's altitude, and the school had two marvels to gaze upon in place of one.
15 The boy ran around and stopped within a foot or two of the flower, and then shaded his eyes with his hand and began to look down street as if he had discovered something of interest going on in that direction.
16 He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two "military" companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment.
17 Tom was about to take refuge in a lie, when he saw two long tails of yellow hair hanging down a back that he recognized by the electric sympathy of love; and by that form was the only vacant place on the girls' side of the school-house.
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