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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- 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.†
Chpt 1 *
- 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.†
Chpt 1
- All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."†
Chpt 2
- 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.†
Chpt 4
- 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.†
Chpt 5
- MONDAY morning found Tom Sawyer miserable.†
Chpt 6
- 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.†
Chpt 6
- 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!†
Chpt 8
- "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."†
Chpt 10
- "Consound it, Tom Sawyer, you're just old pie, 'longside o' what I am.†
Chpt 10
- "Tom Sawyer, the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main.†
Chpt 13
- "Well, Tom Sawyer he licked me once."†
Chpt 17
- 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.†
Chpt 17
- He easily guessed his way to the truth——the girl had simply made a convenience of him to vent her spite upon Tom Sawyer.†
Chpt 18
- At that moment a shadow fell on the page and Tom Sawyer stepped in at the door and caught a glimpse of the picture.†
Chpt 20
- "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."†
Chpt 20
- "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!†
Chpt 20
- 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.†
Chpt 21
- "Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn't be alive two days if that got found out.†
Chpt 23
- Tom Sawyer knew as much of the cave as any one.†
Chpt 29
- Was it Tom Sawyer that found it?"†
Chpt 30
- Tom Sawyer find it!†
Chpt 30
- Pity but somebody could find Tom Sawyer!†
Chpt 30
- Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.†
Chpt 33
- Tom Sawyer's Gang——it sounds splendid, don't it, Huck?"†
Chpt 33
- "Huck and Tom Sawyer."†
Chpt 33
- 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.†
Chpt 35
- Tom Sawyer's Gang!†
Chpt 35
Definition:
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(The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Mark Twain's lighthearted novel of a boy growing up in the south before the Civil War; the most widely read and most commonly adapted to film of Twain's novels (1876)