The Writings of Mark Twain: Tom Sawyer abroad, Tom Sawyer, detective, and other stories, etcHarper and brothers, 1899 |
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ain't Alonzo asked Aunt Sally awful balloon begun Benny Bermuda Bill Withers birds camels Captain conscience course dead dervish desert Detective di'monds dollars echo elephant Ethelton everything eyes feel fetch FLOWER STATION give gone hand head hear heard heart hour Huck Finn hundred hunt Jake Jake Dunlap Jeff Hooker Jim Lane Johnny Rogers Jubiter Dunlap jumped keep keep mum kill kind land look Mars Mars Tom mighty miles mind minute morning murder never nigger night person Pitcairn's Island poor pretty soon Punch reckon Rosannah sand Sawyer says scared seemed seen ship sleep stood talk tell there's thing thought thousand told TOM SAWYER ABROAD took tramp trip slip trouble turned Uncle Silas wait warn't watch weather What's wonderful word young
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الصفحة 333 - A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare!
الصفحة 393 - And in still one more cradle, somewhere under the flag, the future illustrious commander-inchief of the American armies is so little burdened with his approaching grandeurs and responsibilities as to be giving his whole strategic mind at this moment to trying to find out some way to get his big toe into his mouth — an achievement which, meaning no disrespect, the illustrious guest of this evening turned his entire attention to some fifty-six years ago; and if the child is but a prophecy of the...
الصفحة 373 - Q. Well, it was only a suggestion; nothing more. How did you happen to meet Burr? A. Well, I happened to be at his funeral one day, and he asked me to make less noise, and — Q. But, good heavens! if you were at his funeral...
الصفحة 397 - Why, what awful thunder you have here!" But when the baton is raised and the real concert begins you'll find that stranger down in the cellar with his head in the ash barrel.
الصفحة 334 - Thus murmuring faint and fainter, my friend sank into a peaceful trance, and forgot his sufferings in a blessed respite. How did I finally save him from the asylum? I took him to a neighboring university, and made him discharge the burden of his persecuting rhymes into the eager ears of the poor unthinking students. How is it with them, now ? The result is too sad to tell. Why did I write this article? It was for a worthy, even a noble purpose. It...
الصفحة 374 - Buried him! Buried him, without knowing whether he was dead or not? A. Oh no! Not that. He was dead enough. Q. Well, I confess that I can't understand this. If you buried him, and you knew he was dead — A. No! No! We only thought he was.
الصفحة 396 - Yes, one of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it. There is only one thing certain about it, you are certain there is going to be plenty of weather. A perfect grand review; but you never can tell which end of the procession is going to move first. You...
الصفحة 396 - ... thing certain about it, you are certain there is going to be plenty of weather — a perfect grand review; but you never can tell which end of the procession is going to move first. You fix up for the drought ; you leave your umbrella in the house and sally out with your sprinkling-pot, and ten to one you get drowned.
الصفحة 374 - That's it exactly ! You see we were twins, — defunct and I ; and we got mixed in the bathtub when we were only two weeks old, and one of us was drowned. But we didn't know which. Some think it was Bill; and some think it was me.
الصفحة 389 - If you will stop and think a minute, — if you will go back fifty or a hundred years to your early married life, and recontemplate your first baby, — you will remember that he amounted to a good deal, and even something over. You soldiers all know that when that little fellow arrived at family headquarters you had to hand in your resignation.