Tom Sawyer as quoted work
Oxford English Dictionary
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Found: 99 entries
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1. a-plenty (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 59 ``Sho, there's
ticks a-plenty. ''
2. awful (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ii. 17 ``You see, Aunt
Polly's awful particular about this fence. ''
3. barlow kni(1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer iv. 30 ``Mary gave him
a brand-new `Barlow' knife. ''
4. blame (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vii. 67 ``Blame it, I ain't
going to stir him much. ''
5. blame (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vii. 67 ``He's my tick and
I'll do what I blame please with him or die! ''
6. blame (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 65 ``Talk about trying
to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame-fool way as that!
''
7. blamed (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ix, ``Drunk, same as
usual, likely-blamed old rip! ''
8. blamed (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer viii. 79 ``Well, it's
blamed mean-that's all. ''
9. bounce (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 9 ``I'll take and
bounce a rock off'n your head. ''
10. citify (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 7 ``He had a citified
air about him that ate into Tom's vitals. ''
11. cold (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ix. 89 ``Now they're stuck.
Can't find it. Here they come again. Now they're hot. Cold
again. ''
12. dern (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 56, ``I wouldn't give a
dern for spunk-water.''
13. dern (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ix. 97 ``I'd druther
[rather] they was devils a dern sight. ''
14. doodle (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer viii. 76 ``Doodle-bug,
doodle-bug, tell me what I want to know! ''
15. draw (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 138, ``I could smoke this
pipe all day, but he'd keel over with just two draws on a pipe.
''
16. drift (1876) Mark Twain &. Warner Tom Sawyer xxxii. 274
``Villagers filed through Judge Thatcher's house..and drifted
out raining tears all over the place. ''
17. druther (1896) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer, Detective ix. 74 ```Any
way you druther have it, that is the way I druther have it.
He-- .' `There ain't any druthers about it, Huck Finn; nobody
said anything about druthers.' ''
18. ell (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ix. 81 ``A single minute
later he was..creeping along the roof of the `ell' on all
fours. ''
19. evening (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 3 ``He'll play hookey
this evening. ''
20. every (1896) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer, Detective (1897) xi. 117
``He got that big di'mond out..and let it flash and blaze and
squirt sunlight everwhichaway. ''
21. everywhere(1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 66 ``He's been
nearly to Coonville and most everywheres. ''
22. festoon (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xiii. 118 ``Foliage and
festooning vines. ''
23. fighting (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 9 ``You're a fighting
liar, and darn't take it up. ''
24. fitten (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 120, ``I reckon I ain't
dressed fitten for a pirate. ''
25. flesh (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 61 ``It makes my flesh
crawl to hear you.''
26. get (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer iii. 37 `` All through supper
his spirits were so high that his aunt wondered `what had got
into the child'. ''
27. granny (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxv. 193 ```Do they hop?'
`Hop-your granny! No.' ''
28. grape (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 62 ``Another boy said
`Sour grapes!' ''
29. hair-trigg(1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 226 ``The inmates were
asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a
hair&dubh.trigger.''
30. headline (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ii. 29 ``Get out that
headline! ''
31. high-toned(1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxvi. 272 ``A robber
is more high-toned than what a pirate is..as a general thing.
''
32. honest (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ix. 100 ``Tell me,
Joe,-honest, now, old feller-did I do it, Joe? ''
33. hy-spy (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxviii. 267 ``They had an
exhausting good time playing `hi-spy'. ''
34. Injun (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ii, ``Ben, I'd like to,
honest Injun; but [etc.]. ''
35. kite (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxx. 304 ``He took a
kite-line from his pocket. ''
36. lemme (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ii. 19 ``Come now; lemme
just try... Now lemme try. ''
37. lie (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 4 ``But in spite of her,
Tom knew where the wind lay, now. ''
38. look (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer x. 94 ``And besides,
look-a-here-maybe that whack done for him! ''
39. marvel (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ii. 13 ``Jim, I'll give
you a marvel. ''
40. mph (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 272 ``What would people say?
`Mph! Tom Sawyer's gang! pretty low characters in it.' ''
41. muck (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxiii, ``When a body's in
such a muck of trouble.''
42. outside (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 29 ``Come ahead on the
stabboard! Stop her! Let your outside turn over slow. ''
43. pinch-bug (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer v. 47 ``It was a large
black beetle with formidable jaws-a `pinch-bug' he called it.
''
44. powder (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxii. 323 ``It was the
treasure-box..along with an empty powder-keg, a couple of guns
in leather cases,..a leather belt, and some other rubbish. ''
45. private (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxv. 272 ``I'll smoke
private and cuss private. ''
46. provision (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxviii. 268 ``The gay
throng filed up the main street laden with *provision baskets.
''
47. raft (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 235 ``If you was to go to
Europe you'd see a raft of 'em hopping around. ''
48. rear (1876) Mark Twain Adv. Tom Sawyer ii. 28 ``In another
moment he was flying down the street with his pail and a
tingling rear.., and Aunt Polly was retiring from the field
with a slipper in her hand. ''
49. rearward (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi, ``His coat..had the
rearward buttons far down the back.''
50. recoat (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer iii, ``She found the
entire fence..not only whitewashed but elaborately coated and
recoated. ''
51. research (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxii, ``The lads
searched and re-searched this place, but in vain.''
52. ride (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer x, ``The villagers had a
strong desire to..ride him on a rail for body-snatching. ''
53. roundabout(1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i, ``She turned just in
time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout.''
54. rush (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xviii. 149 ``He is always in
such a rush that he never thinks of anything. ''
55. sail (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer v. 58 ``Then there was a
wild yelp of agony and the poodle went sailing up the aisle. ''
56. sass (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 23 ``If you give me much
more of your sass I'll take and bounce a rock off'n your head.
''
57. sheriff (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xi, ``The Sheriff was
confident that he [the murderer] would be captured before
night. ''
58. sheriff (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxiv, ``Then the judge
arrived, and the sheriff proclaimed the opening of the court.''
59. shut (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xviii, ``Shut your heads and
let Tom go on!''
60. slather (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vii. 68 ``They get
slathers of money-most a dollar a day. ''
61. slow (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxi. 237 ``The
slow-dragging ages. ''
62. smarty (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 22 ``Smarty! You think
you're some, now. ''
63. smarty (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xviii. 156 ``That Saint
Louis smarty that thinks he dresses so fine. ''
64. smoke (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxi. 23 ``Holding their
candles aloft and reading the tangled web-work of names..with
which the rocky walls [of the cave] had been frescoed (in
candle smoke)... They made a smoke-mark for future guidance. ''
65. snow (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xvi, ``A sweep of chilly air
passed by,..snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.''
66. sold (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xvii. 147 ``As the `sold'
congregation trooped out they said they would almost be willing
to be made ridiculous again.''
67. some (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 8 ``Smarty! You think
you're some, now, don't you. ''
68. som'ers (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxiii. 182 ``It keeps me
in a sweat, constant, so's I want to hide som'ers. ''
69. splint (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 68 ``The master,
throned on high in his great splint-bottom armchair, was
dozing. ''
70. spring (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxiv. 265 ``Old Mr. Jones
is going to try to spring something on the people here
to-night. ''
71. squirm (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxi. 171 ``A
brain&dubh.racking effort was made to squirm it into some
aspect or other that the moral and religious mind could
contemplate with edification.''
72. stage (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxi. 169 ``A ghastly
*stage-fright seized him. ''
73. star (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer iv. 50 ``He had been around
among the star pupils inquiring. ''
74. stiff (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xvi. 142 ``They felt rusty,
and stiff-jointed, and a little homesick. ''
75. stove (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 17 ``She could have seen
through a pair of *stove lids just as well. ''
76. study (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xviii, ```Go on, Tom!'
`Just let me study a moment-just a moment. Oh, yes-you said you
believed the door was open.'''
77. sun (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xiv. 123 ``They were back
again with some handsome bass, a couple of sun-perch and a
small catfish. ''
78. sun-tan (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xviii. 185 ``That
swarthy, suntanned skin of his. ''
79. sure (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer iv. 83 ``They're coming,
sure. ''
80. suspicion (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxvii, ``Anybody would
suspicion us that saw us. ''
81. sweat (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xx. 200 ``Well, it's a kind
of a tight place for Becky Thatcher... Just..let her sweat it
out! ''
82. take (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer i. 8 ``I'll take and bounce
a rock off'n your head. ''
83. take (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer 162 ``She could hardly wait
for school to `take in'. ''
84. tomato (1876) Mark Twain Adventures Tom Sawyer i. 18 ``[She]
looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that
constituted the garden. ''
85. tree (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer ii. 27 ``[Tom] sat down on
the *tree-box discouraged. ''
86. triple (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxii. 251, ``I had its
big door sheathed with boiler iron..and triple-locked. ''
87. turn (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 71 ``He took his
place...in the spelling class, and got `turned down', by a
succession of mere baby words. ''
88. uncle (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxviii. 216 ``He let's
[sic] me, and so does his pap's nigger man, Uncle Jake. ''
89. unirrigate(1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer iv. 44 ``When he
emerged from the towel, he was not yet satisfactory, for the
clean territory stopped short at his chin... Below..there was a
dark expanse of unirrigated soil.''
90. wall (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer iii, ``He would turn his
face to the wall, and die with that word unsaid.''
91. wall (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer v, ``The ladies would lift
up their hands,..and `wall' their eyes, and shake their heads.
''
92. wallow (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer x. 97 ``But if ever I get
off this time, I lay I'll just waller in Sunday-schools! ''
93. walnut (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xvi. 134 ``Perfectly round
white things a trifle smaller than an English walnut. ''
94. war-whoop (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xv, ``Then they set up
a war-whoop of applause, and said it was `splendid!'''
95. watchman (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xv, ``He..walked boldly
on board the boat, for he knew she was tenant&dubh.less, except
that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like
a graven image.''
96. water (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxiii. 260 ``It was the
treasure-box..occupying a snug little cavern, along
with..some..rubbish well-soaked with the water-drip. ''
97. weaken (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxvii, ``Don't you ever
weaken, Huck, and I won't. ''
98. whack (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer vi. 70 ``I'll stay if you
will.' `Good-that's a whack'. ''
99. whizz (1876) Mark Twain Tom Sawyer xxxiv, ```If we don't find
it, I'll agree to give you my drum and everything I've
got.'..`All right-it's a whiz.' ''