EARNEST in THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

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Definition

characterized by sincere belief

or:

intensely or excessively serious

And she put her small hand upon his and a little scuffle ensued, Tom pretending to resist in earnest but letting his hand slip by degrees till these words were revealed: "I LOVE YOU."
Chapter 6 (94% in)

Mr. Walters was very earnest of mien, and very sincere and honest at heart; and he held sacred things and places in such reverence, and so separated them from worldly matters, that unconsciously to himself his Sunday-school voice had acquired a peculiar intonation which was wholly absent on week-days.
Chapter 4 (51% in)
Tom—honest injun, now—is it fun, or earnest?
Chapter 33 (34% in)
Earnest, Huck—just as earnest as ever I was in my life.
Chapter 33 (34% in)
Earnest, Huck—just as earnest as ever I was in my life.
Chapter 33 (34% in)
Oh, good-licks; are you in real dead-wood earnest, Tom?
Chapter 35 (71% in)
"Just as dead earnest as I'm sitting here.
Chapter 35 (72% in)

There are no more uses of "earnest" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

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