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1  I couldn't understand it no way at all.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV.
2  It's most uncommon curious, I can't understand it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII.
3  Well, I warn't long making him understand I warn't dead.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
4  There ain't necessity enough in this case; and, besides, Jim's a nigger, and wouldn't understand the reasons for it, and how it's the custom in Europe; so we'll let it go.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV.
5  The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to understand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it.'
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV.
6  The ringmaster couldn't ever say a word to him but he was back at him quick as a wink with the funniest things a body ever said; and how he ever could think of so many of them, and so sudden and so pat, was what I couldn't noway understand.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII.
7  When we was three or four hundred yards down-stream we see the lantern show like a little spark at the texas door for a second, and we knowed by that that the rascals had missed their boat, and was beginning to understand that they was in just as much trouble now as Jim Turner was.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII.