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1  He soon struck wood that sounded hollow.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  So he stepped ashore and entered the woods.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  They were wide apart in the woods, both very pale, both fast asleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  I like the woods, and the river, and hogsheads, and I'll stick to 'em, too.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
5  But they were off in a jiffy, those villains, and we after them, down through the woods.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  Tom's "real Barlow" was out at once, and he had not dug four inches before he struck wood.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Now, far away in the woods a bird called; another answered; presently the hammering of a woodpecker was heard.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  He entered a dense wood, picked his pathless way to the centre of it, and sat down on a mossy spot under a spreading oak.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  The stillness, the solemnity that brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon the spirits of the boys.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  They lay around in the shade, after breakfast, while Huck had a smoke, and then went off through the woods on an exploring expedition.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  They got a posse together, and went off to guard the river bank, and as soon as it is light the sheriff and a gang are going to beat up the woods.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  He put his hand on his jacket pocket, found his piece of bark safe, and then struck through the woods, following the shore, with streaming garments.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Now, Huck," said Tom, "we'll hide the money in the loft of the widow's woodshed, and I'll come up in the morning and we'll count it and divide, and then we'll hunt up a place out in the woods for it where it will be safe.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  Three miles below St. Petersburg, at a point where the Mississippi River was a trifle over a mile wide, there was a long, narrow, wooded island, with a shallow bar at the head of it, and this offered well as a rendezvous.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
16  The boys gazed awhile, half expecting to see a blue light flit past a window; then talking in a low tone, as befitted the time and the circumstances, they struck far off to the right, to give the haunted house a wide berth, and took their way homeward through the woods that adorned the rearward side of Cardiff Hill.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
17  They had paddled over to the Missouri shore on a log, at dusk on Saturday, landing five or six miles below the village; they had slept in the woods at the edge of the town till nearly daylight, and had then crept through back lanes and alleys and finished their sleep in the gallery of the church among a chaos of invalided benches.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
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