 ... 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...  The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] - Page 162by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner - 1899Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 980 pages
...it was so still, and sounds come so far; and 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...streak look that way ; and you see the mist curl up offof the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of... | |
 | Samuel Langhorne Clemens - 1884 - 496 pages
...was so still, and sounds come so far ; and 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...east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a wood-yard,... | |
 | 1885 - 980 pages
...it was so still, and sounds come so far; and 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...on it and makes that streak look that way ; and you seethe mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log... | |
 | 1904 - 1002 pages
...was so still, and sounds come so far ; and 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 en it and makes that streak look that way ; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1912 - 436 pages
...it was so still, and sounds come so far; and 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...east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a wood-yard,... | |
 | Albert Bigelow Paine - 1912 - 618 pages
...was so still, and sounds come so far; and 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...streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log-cabin in the edge of the... | |
 | Albert Bigelow Paine - 1912 - 884 pages
...sounds come so far; and by-and-by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look 4 of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift...streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log-cabin in the edge of the... | |
 | Charles Grinnell Cleaver - 1976 - 314 pages
...it was so still, and sounds come so far; and 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...east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a woodyard,... | |
 | George C. Carrington - 1976 - 232 pages
...description are subtly ordered; for example, "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...breaks on it and makes that streak look that way." Here which and that are used deftly and unidiomatically to make the sentence communicate a complex... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1982 - 1190 pages
...was so still, and sounds conie so far; and 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...east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a wood-yard,... | |
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