The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.], Volume 13Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 |
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... mean practice and wasn't clean , and I must try to not do it any more . That is just the way with some people . They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it . Here she was a - bothering about Moses , which was no kin ...
... mean practice and wasn't clean , and I must try to not do it any more . That is just the way with some people . They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it . Here she was a - bothering about Moses , which was no kin ...
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... mean no harm . All I wanted was to go somewheres ; all I wanted was a change , I warn't particular . She said it was wicked to say what I said ; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world ; she was going to live so as to go to the ...
... mean no harm . All I wanted was to go somewheres ; all I wanted was a change , I warn't particular . She said it was wicked to say what I said ; said she wouldn't say it for the whole world ; she was going to live so as to go to the ...
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... means that we keep them till they're dead . " " Now , that's something like . That'll answer . Why couldn't you said that before ? We'll keep them till they're ransomed to death ; and a bothersome lot they'll be , too - eating up ...
... means that we keep them till they're dead . " " Now , that's something like . That'll answer . Why couldn't you said that before ? We'll keep them till they're ransomed to death ; and a bothersome lot they'll be , too - eating up ...
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... mean , my boy ? " " I says , " Don't you ask me no questions about it , please . You'll take it- won't you ? " He ... means I have bought it of you and paid you for it . Here's a dollar for you . Now you sign it . ' So I signed it , and ...
... mean , my boy ? " " I says , " Don't you ask me no questions about it , please . You'll take it- won't you ? " He ... means I have bought it of you and paid you for it . Here's a dollar for you . Now you sign it . ' So I signed it , and ...
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... mean I don't know the words to put it in . I took a good gap and a stretch , and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water . I listened . Pretty soon I made it out . It was that dull kind of a regular ...
... mean I don't know the words to put it in . I took a good gap and a stretch , and was just going to unhitch and start when I heard a sound away over the water . I listened . Pretty soon I made it out . It was that dull kind of a regular ...
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Page 15 - You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.
Page iii - NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
Page 277 - And at last, when it hit me all of a sudden that here was the plain hand of Providence slapping me in the face and letting me know my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in heaven, whilst I was stealing a poor old woman's nigger that hadn't ever done me no harm...
Page 123 - It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd 'a' knowed it would make him feel that way.
Page 162 - ... by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way...
Page 185 - To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of.
Page 370 - I've knowed him all his life, and so has Tom, there. Old Miss Watson died two months ago, and she was ashamed she ever was going to sell him down the river, and said so ; and she set him free in her will." " Then what on earth did you want to set him free for, seeing he was already free...
Page 111 - We skipped out and looked ; but it warn't nothing but the flutter of a steamboat's wheel away down, coming around the point ; so we come back. "Yes...
Page 287 - Well, it's lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt. Two years ago last Christmas your uncle Silas was coming up from Newrleans on the old Lolly Rook, and she blowed out a cylinder-head and crippled a man.
Page 15 - The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.