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1  Calculates to do the best for 'em I can.'
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  O, well, certainly," said St. Clare; "do as you think best.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  The best we can do is to shut our eyes and ears, and let it alone.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  He worked for me some half-dozen years in my bagging factory, and he was my best hand, sir.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  I'm not sure, now, but it's the best way to tell Chloe, and let her make up her mind to it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  I shall travel by daylight, stop at the best hotels, go to the dinner-tables with the lords of the land.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  At this table was seated Uncle Tom, Mr. Shelby's best hand, who, as he is to be the hero of our story, we must daguerreotype for our readers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  The best I can do is to tell ye to go thar, said he, pointing to a large white house which stood by itself, off the main street of the village.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  Meantime, Haley, if you want the matter carried on in the quiet way you speak of, you'd best not let your business in this neighborhood be known.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
10  At all events, Miss Ophelia knew of nothing else to do; and, therefore, applied her mind to her heathen with the best diligence she could command.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
11  It cost some effort of our senator to induce him to comprehend the case fully; and while he is doing his best at that, we shall give him a little introduction to our readers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all; so that he feels that there are ten chances of his finding an abusive and tyrannical master, to one of his finding a considerate and kind one.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  It was all too true to be disputed, and the unlucky man had to pocket his wrath with the best grace he was able, and all three faced to the right about, and took up their line of march for the highway.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  But, then, as it appears to be a duty, I shall persevere and try, and do the best I can, said Miss Ophelia; and Miss Ophelia, after this, did labor, with a commendable degree of zeal and energy, on her new subject.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  There is a brisk lookout on the toilet; injunctions passed around to every one to put on their best face and be spry; and now all are arranged in a circle for a last review, before they are marched up to the Bourse.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
16  It was credibly ascertained that Squire Sinclare, as his name was commonly contracted in the neighborhood, had counted out fifty dollars, and given them to Miss Ophelia, and told her to buy any clothes she thought best; and that two new silk dresses, and a bonnet, had been sent for from Boston.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
17  After the expositions which the trader had previously given of his humane principles, Mr. Shelby did not feel particularly reassured by these declarations; but, as they were the best comfort the case admitted of, he allowed the trader to depart in silence, and betook himself to a solitary cigar.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
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