1 Beaded dewdrops stood upon the leaves and grasses.
2 A few big raindrops fell pattering upon the leaves.
3 They were allowed to leave the stand without being cross-questioned.
4 We will leave them to smoke and chatter and brag, since we have no further use for them at present.
5 He had also contrived to catch a few bats, and these, also, he had eaten, leaving only their claws.
6 A sweep of chilly air passed by, rustling all the leaves and snowing the flaky ashes broadcast about the fire.
7 Joe grumbled awhile; then he agreed with his friend that what daylight was left ought to be economized in getting things ready for leaving.
8 Well, the women get to loving you, and after they've been in the cave a week or two weeks they stop crying and after that you couldn't get them to leave.
9 By and by, Mr. Dobbins straightened himself up, yawned, then unlocked his desk, and reached for his book, but seemed undecided whether to take it out or leave it.
10 In due course the superintendent stood up in front of the pulpit, with a closed hymn-book in his hand and his forefinger inserted between its leaves, and commanded attention.
11 Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
12 Tom got about, a little, on Thursday, was downtown Friday, and nearly as whole as ever Saturday; but Becky did not leave her room until Sunday, and then she looked as if she had passed through a wasting illness.
13 Huck found a spring of clear cold water close by, and the boys made cups of broad oak or hickory leaves, and felt that water, sweetened with such a wildwood charm as that, would be a good enough substitute for coffee.