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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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  • And that part when you thought Tom Sawyer was dead-you had real tears in your eyes.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer Land?†   (source)
  • Just then, Tom Sawyer, barefoot and dressed in tattered clothes, strolled by them, whistling a happy tune.†   (source)
  • In the summer, I would sit for endless hours in the middle of high clover, idly searching for one with four leaves, then pressing it between the pages of Tom Sawyer or The Hardy Boys.†   (source)
  • We read the same things over and over, chapters from Alice, stretches from Tom Sawyer, Edward Lear's "Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World.†   (source)
  • He's just like Tom Sawyer," she said.†   (source)
  • "You could read me Tom Sawyer," suggested Meggie, "or How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin."†   (source)
  • Kenyon was in my sophomore English class, and I'd directed Nancy in the 'Tom Sawyer' play.†   (source)
  • A candlelight vigil would be held this evening in Tom Sawyer Park, which, according to the press, was "a favorite place of Amy Elliott Dunne's."†   (source)
  • Fenoglio 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.†   (source)
  • He talks to me in his river-wavy Missouri accent; he was born and raised outside of Hannibal, the boyhood home of Mark Twain, the inspiration for Tom Sawyer.†   (source)
  • I always liked reading aloud, even as a boy, and one day, when I was reading Tom Sawyer to a friend, a dead cat suddenly appeared on the carpet, lying there stiff as a board.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer?†   (source)
  • Bonnie had resurrected her "old self"; as if serving up a preview of the normality, the regained vigor, soon to be, she had rouged her lips, fussed with her hair, and, wearing a new dress, accompanied him to the Holcomb School, where they applauded a student production of Tom Sawyer, in which Nancy played Becky Thatcher.†   (source)
  • "Tom Sawyer, the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main.†   (source)
  • "Well, hain't he got a father?" says Tom Sawyer.†   (source)
  • I says; "your head gets leveler and leveler all the time, Tom Sawyer," I says.†   (source)
  • "Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn't be alive two days if that got found out.†   (source)
  • Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing?†   (source)
  • "Consound it, Tom Sawyer, you're just old pie, 'longside o' what I am.†   (source)
  • "This ain't no thirty-seven year job; this is a thirty-eight year job, Tom Sawyer."†   (source)
  • MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.†   (source)
  • Tom had his store clothes on, and an audience——and that was always nuts for Tom Sawyer.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer knew as much of the cave as any one.†   (source)
  • "Why, Tom Sawyer, how you talk," I says; "Jim ain't got no use for a rope ladder."†   (source)
  • "Now, we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer's Gang——it sounds splendid, don't it, Huck?"†   (source)
  • Nobody could spread himself like Tom Sawyer in such a thing as that.†   (source)
  • Pity but somebody could find Tom Sawyer!†   (source)
  • Then I says to myself, s'pose Tom Sawyer comes down on that boat?†   (source)
  • He said Tom Sawyer couldn't get up no better plan than what I had.†   (source)
  • So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies.†   (source)
  • stealing cattle and such things ain't robbery; it's burglary," says Tom Sawyer.†   (source)
  • THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER BY MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) P R E F A C E MOST of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER I. 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.†   (source)
  • "Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once."†   (source)
  • "Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer swears they will keep mum about This and They wish They may Drop down dead in Their Tracks if They ever Tell and Rot."†   (source)
  • He easily guessed his way to the truth——the girl had simply made a convenience of him to vent her spite upon Tom Sawyer.†   (source)
  • "Tom Sawyer, you are just as mean as you can be, to sneak up on a person and look at what they're looking at."†   (source)
  • But I never said so. I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said not by a considerable sight.†   (source)
  • At that moment a shadow fell on the page and Tom Sawyer stepped in at the door and caught a glimpse of the picture.†   (source)
  • And so did I. It was Tom Sawyer on a mattress; and that old doctor; and Jim, in HER calico dress, with his hands tied behind him; and a lot of people.†   (source)
  • All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."†   (source)
  • Being Tom Sawyer was easy and comfortable, and it stayed easy and comfortable till by and by I hear a steamboat coughing along down the river.†   (source)
  • "You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Tom Sawyer; you know you're going to tell on me, and oh, what shall I do, what shall I do!†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer went home quite cheerful, thinking to himself that there was some satisfaction about divine service when there was a bit of variety in it.†   (source)
  • Then I slipped down to the ground and crawled in among the trees, and, sure enough, there was Tom Sawyer waiting for me.†   (source)
  • Was it Tom Sawyer that found it?"†   (source)
  • I did wish Tom Sawyer was there; I knowed he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches.†   (source)
  • And now at this moment, when hope was dead, Tom Sawyer came forward with nine yellow tickets, nine red tickets, and ten blue ones, and demanded a Bible.†   (source)
  • It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard——and I'm bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation.†   (source)
  • If I had Tom Sawyer's head I wouldn't trade it off to be a duke, nor mate of a steamboat, nor clown in a circus, nor nothing I can think of.†   (source)
  • Early the third morning Tom Sawyer wisely went poking among some old empty hogsheads down behind the abandoned slaughter-house, and in one of them he found the refugee.†   (source)
  • His heart was heavy, and he said with a disdain which he did not feel that it wasn't anything to spit like Tom Sawyer; but another boy said, "Sour grapes!" and he wandered away a dismantled hero.†   (source)
  • I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat——I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself.†   (source)
  • But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that's all very fine to SAY, Tom Sawyer, but how in the nation are these fellows going to be ransomed if we don't know how to do it to them?†   (source)
  • Old Hundred swelled up with a triumphant burst, and while it shook the rafters Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.†   (source)
  • Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual——he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.†   (source)
  • Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Jo Harper, and Tom Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer said I was a numskull.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer find it!†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer's Gang!†   (source)
  • I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so I won't either; I'm a-going to see what's going on here.†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer called the hogs "ingots," and he called the turnips and stuff "julery," and we would go to the cave and powwow over what we had done, and how many people we had killed and marked.†   (source)
  • And at the zenith of his fame, how he would suddenly appear at the old village and stalk into church, brown and weather-beaten, in his black velvet doublet and trunks, his great jack-boots, his crimson sash, his belt bristling with horse-pistols, his crime-rusted cutlass at his side, his slouch hat with waving plumes, his black flag unfurled, with the skull and crossbones on it, and hear with swelling ecstasy the whisperings, "It's Tom Sawyer the Pirate!†   (source)
  • SO I started for town in the wagon, and when I was half-way I see a wagon coming, and sure enough it was Tom Sawyer, and I stopped and waited till he come along.†   (source)
  • "Huck and Tom Sawyer."†   (source)
  • I didn't see no di'monds, and I told Tom Sawyer so. He said there was loads of them there, anyway; and he said there was A-rabs there, too, and elephants and things.†   (source)
  • They agreed to get together and fix a day as soon as they could, and then we elected Tom Sawyer first captain and Jo Harper second captain of the Gang, and so started home.†   (source)
  • She told about me and Tom Sawyer finding the six thousand dollars (only she got it ten) and all about pap and what a hard lot he was, and what a hard lot I was, and at last she got down to where I was murdered.†   (source)
  • Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd GOT to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was.†   (source)
  • Then we started for the house, and I went in the back door——you only have to pull a buckskin latch-string, they don't fasten the doors——but that warn't romantical enough for Tom Sawyer; no way would do him but he must climb up the lightning-rod.†   (source)
  • I wish Tom Sawyer WAS here."†   (source)
  • Tom Sawyer he says the same.†   (source)
  • Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer?†   (source)
  • "Well," I says, "if it's in the regulations, and he's got to have it, all right, let him have it; because I don't wish to go back on no regulations; but there's one thing, Tom Sawyer——if we go to tearing up our sheets to make Jim a rope ladder, we're going to get into trouble with Aunt Sally, just as sure as you're born.†   (source)
  • So Tom's Aunt Polly, she told all about who I was, and what; and I had to up and tell how I was in such a tight place that when Mrs. Phelps took me for Tom Sawyer——she chipped in and says, "Oh, go on and call me Aunt Sally, I'm used to it now, and 'tain't no need to change"——that when Aunt Sally took me for Tom Sawyer I had to stand it——there warn't no other way, and I knowed he wouldn't mind, because it would be nuts for him, being a mystery, and he'd make an adventure out of it, and be perfectly satisfied.†   (source)
  • "It's TOM SAWYER!"†   (source)
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