Tom Sawyer as quoted work
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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.' ''