The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 13Harper & brothers, 1912 |
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... fetch me some bad luck , so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me . I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time ; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep ...
... fetch me some bad luck , so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me . I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time ; and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep ...
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... fetch witches whenever he wanted to just by saying some- thing to it ; but he never told what it was he said to it . Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had , just for a sight of that five- center piece ...
... fetch witches whenever he wanted to just by saying some- thing to it ; but he never told what it was he said to it . Niggers would come from all around there and give Jim anything they had , just for a sight of that five- center piece ...
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... fetch them to the cave , and you're always as polite as pie to them ; and by and by they fall in love with you , and never want to go home any more . ' 66 " Well , if that's the way I'm agreed , but I don't take no stock in it . Mighty ...
... fetch them to the cave , and you're always as polite as pie to them ; and by and by they fall in love with you , and never want to go home any more . ' 66 " Well , if that's the way I'm agreed , but I don't take no stock in it . Mighty ...
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... fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry , they've got to do it and they've got to do it before sun - up next morning , too . And more : they've got to waltz that palace around over the country wherever you want it , you ...
... fetch an emperor's daughter from China for you to marry , they've got to do it and they've got to do it before sun - up next morning , too . And more : they've got to waltz that palace around over the country wherever you want it , you ...
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... fetch him at de las ' . But you is all right . You gwyne to have considable trouble in yo ' life , en con- sidable joy . Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt , en sometimes you gwyne to git sick ; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin ...
... fetch him at de las ' . But you is all right . You gwyne to have considable trouble in yo ' life , en con- sidable joy . Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt , en sometimes you gwyne to git sick ; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin ...
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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 158 - It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain't agoing to tell all that happened — it would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night, to see such things. I ain't ever going to get shut of them — lots of times I dream about them.
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 287 - I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got now; and then I happened to look around, and see that paper.
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 38 - There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl— a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white.
Page 130 - I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn't no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don't get started right - when he's little, ain't got no show— when the pinch comes there ain't nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat. Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,— s'pose you'd- a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now?
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 140 - ... a mighty nice house, too. I hadn't seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style. It didn't have an iron latch on the front door, nor a wooden one with a buckskin string, but a brass knob to turn, the same as houses in town.
Page 248 - Judus if she took the notion — there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see ; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery.