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" Sherburn never said a word - just stood there, looking down. The stillness was awful creepy and uncomfortable. Sherburn run his eye slow along the crowd; and wherever it struck, the people tried a little to outgaze him, but they couldn't; they dropped... "
Present-day Essays - Page 77
edited by - 1923 - 348 pages
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The Writings of Mark Twain, Volume 13

Mark Twain - 1912 - 410 pages
...but they couldn't; they dropped their eyes i and looked sneaky. Then pretty soon Sherburn sort __y of laughed: not the pleasant kind, but the kind that...makes you feel like when you are eating bread that's i got sand in it. Then he says, slow and scornful: " The idea of you lynching anybody! It's amusing....
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) ...

Mark Twain - 1918 - 432 pages
...uncomfortable. Sherburn run his eye slow along the crowd; and wherever it struck the people tried a little to outgaze him, but they couldn't; they dropped their...eyes and looked sneaky. Then pretty soon Sherburn sortof laughed ; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are eating bread...
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The True Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

John D. Seelye - 1987 - 376 pages
...uncomfortable. Sherburn run his eyes slow along the crowd; and wherever it struck the people tried a little to outgaze him, but they couldn't; they dropped their...kind that makes you feel like when you are eating greens that's got sand in them. Then he started in to talk, slow and scornful. He told them that the...
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain - 1987 - 388 pages
...uncomfortable. Sherburn run bis eye slow along the crowd; and wherever it struck the people tried a little to outgaze him, but they couldn't; they dropped their...pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like you're eating bread with sand in it Then he says, slow and scornful: "The idea of you lynching anybody!...
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Writing "Huck Finn": Mark Twain's Creative Process

Victor A. Doyno, Victor Doyno - 1992 - 296 pages
...the circus, but the kind that's fitten for a funeral — the kind that makes you feel crawly" became "not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you...like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it" (190). The loss of the polar contrasts seems, at first, regrettable. Perhaps Twain thought the circus...
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The Mark Twain Encyclopedia

J. R. LeMaster, James Darrell Wilson, Christie Graves Hamric - 1993 - 952 pages
...(chapter 33). Sherbum's description of the low character of the townspeople rings true, but in his laugh, "not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you...like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it" (chapter 22), he too embodies southern violence. Twain recreated in the Sherbum-Boggs episode a disturbing...
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The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain - 2001 - 324 pages
...uncomfortable. Sherburn run his eye slow along the crowd; and wherever it struck the people tried a little to outgaze him, but they couldn't; they dropped their...like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it. "The idea oí you lynching anybody! It's amusing. The idea of you thinking you had pluck enough to...
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Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship

Michael J. Kiskis, Laura E. Skandera-Trombley - 2001 - 264 pages
...very little that is idyllic about the humor Huck encounters: from the laughter of Colonel Sherburn, "not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you...like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it" (AHF, 118); to the pranks of the all-male mob, "There couldn't nothing wake them up all over, and make...
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