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1  I took notice, and done better.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X.
2  You better stay here all night.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI.
3  I reckoned I better keep still.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI.
4  I reckon that's a considerble sight better 'n killin' of him.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII.
5  He said Tom Sawyer couldn't get up no better plan than what I had.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
6  I was feeling better then, but I wished I was out of there, anyway.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI.
7  We better camp here if we can find a good place; the horses is about beat out.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII.
8  But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII.
9  We was out of coffee, so Jim said I better go along with them in the canoe and get some.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX.
10  Handcuffs and chains would look still better on Jim, but it wouldn't go well with the story of us being so poor.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX.
11  In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I.
12  I was going to rush by and get away, but a lot of dogs jumped out and went to howling and barking at me, and I knowed better than to move another peg.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
13  By and by we talked about what we better do, and found there warn't no way but just to go along down with the raft till we got a chance to buy a canoe to go back in.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI.
14  I thought it all out, and reckoned I would belong to the widow's if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was a-going to be any better off then than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant, and so kind of low-down and ornery.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III.
15  My bed was a straw tick better than Jim's, which was a corn-shuck tick; there's always cobs around about in a shuck tick, and they poke into you and hurt; and when you roll over the dry shucks sound like you was rolling over in a pile of dead leaves; it makes such a rustling that you wake up.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX.
16  When he had got out on the shed he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone he come back and put his head in again, and told me to mind about that school, because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn't drop that.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V.
17  When we was three-quarters of a mile below we hoisted up our signal lantern; and about ten o'clock it come on to rain and blow and thunder and lighten like everything; so the king told us to both stay on watch till the weather got better; then him and the duke crawled into the wigwam and turned in for the night.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX.
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