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1  Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted, admired, stared at.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
2  He took a rest and then swelled himself up and fetched a succession of admirable groans.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Huckleberry was filled with admiration of Tom's facility in writing, and the sublimity of his language.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
4  The minister gave out the hymn, and read it through with a relish, in a peculiar style which was much admired in that part of the country.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
5  The lads came gayly back and went at their sports again with a will, chattering all the time about Tom's stupendous plan and admiring the genius of it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  As Tom wended to school after breakfast, he was the envy of every boy he met because the gap in his upper row of teeth enabled him to expectorate in a new and admirable way.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  In a little while familiarity modified their fears and they gave the place a critical and interested examination, rather admiring their own boldness, and wondering at it, too.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  He worshipped this new angel with furtive eye, till he saw that she had discovered him; then he pretended he did not know she was present, and began to "show off" in all sorts of absurd boyish ways, in order to win her admiration.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
9  In one place they found a spacious cavern, from whose ceiling depended a multitude of shining stalactites of the length and circumference of a man's leg; they walked all about it, wondering and admiring, and presently left it by one of the numerous passages that opened into it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI