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1  Huck began to dig and scratch now.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  They growled a response and went on digging.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  He went to a rotten log near at hand and began to dig under one end of it with his Barlow knife.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  By and by they judged that twelve had come; they marked where the shadow fell, and began to dig.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  THERE comes a time in every rightly-constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  He subtracted from it twenty or thirty dollars for himself and as much for Injun Joe, and passed the bag to the latter, who was on his knees in the corner, now, digging with his bowie-knife.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  You take and split the bean, and cut the wart so as to get some blood, and then you put the blood on one piece of the bean and take and dig a hole and bury it 'bout midnight at the crossroads in the dark of the moon, and then you burn up the rest of the bean.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V