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1  Then she seized the chunk of fire and suddenly thrust it almost into the boy's face.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  A ghastly stage-fright seized him, his legs quaked under him and he was like to choke.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  His head nodded, and little by little his chin descended and touched the enemy, who seized it.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
4  The boys seized each others' hands and fled, with many tumblings and bruises, to the shelter of a great oak that stood upon the riverbank.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
6  He found that it curtained a sort of steep natural stairway which was enclosed between narrow walls, and at once the ambition to be a discoverer seized him.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  He seized Becky's hand and hurried her into the first corridor that offered; and none too soon, for a bat struck Becky's light out with its wing while she was passing out of the cavern.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  Tom flung off his jacket and trousers, turned a suspender into a belt, raked away some brush behind the rotten log, disclosing a rude bow and arrow, a lath sword and a tin trumpet, and in a moment had seized these things and bounded away, barelegged, with fluttering shirt.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII