The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.], Volume 13Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1899 |
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... seen anybody but lied one time or another , without it was Aunt Polly , or the widow , or maybe Mary . Aunt Polly - Tom's Aunt Polly , she is and Mary , and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book , which is mostly a true book ...
... seen anybody but lied one time or another , without it was Aunt Polly , or the widow , or maybe Mary . Aunt Polly - Tom's Aunt Polly , she is and Mary , and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book , which is mostly a true book ...
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... seen the devil and been rode by witches . Well , when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill- top we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling , where there was sick folks , maybe ; and the stars ...
... seen the devil and been rode by witches . Well , when Tom and me got to the edge of the hill- top we looked away down into the village and could see three or four lights twinkling , where there was sick folks , maybe ; and the stars ...
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... seen in these parts for a year or more . - They talked it over , and they was going to rule me out , because they said every boy must have a family or somebody to kill , or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others . Well ...
... seen in these parts for a year or more . - They talked it over , and they was going to rule me out , because they said every boy must have a family or somebody to kill , or else it wouldn't be fair and square for the others . Well ...
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... seen it in books ; and so of course that's what we've got to do . " " But how can we do it if we don't know what it is ? " Why , blame it all , we've got to do it . 44 Don't I tell you it's in the books ? Do you want to go to doing ...
... seen it in books ; and so of course that's what we've got to do . " " But how can we do it if we don't know what it is ? " Why , blame it all , we've got to do it . 44 Don't I tell you it's in the books ? Do you want to go to doing ...
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... seen for more than a year , and that was comfortable for me ; I didn't want to see him He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me ; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around ...
... seen for more than a year , and that was comfortable for me ; I didn't want to see him He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me ; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around ...
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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.