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(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 272: I don’t give a dern for a thing ’thout it’s tollable hard to git.at not give a damn, v.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 272: I don’t give a dern for a thing ’thout it’s tollable hard to git. (con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 150: Well, for the land’s sake! I never heard the beat of that in all my days!at beat, n.2
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 193: I ain’t going to throw off on di’monds. [...] there ain’t any, hardly, but’s worth six bits or a dollar.at six bits (n.) under bit, n.1
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 228: Please don’t tell anybody it was me that blowed on them!at blow, v.1
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 271: And dad fetch it, she prayed all the time!at dad-burn, v.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 218: She’ll have ice-cream! She has it most every day – dead loads of it.at dead loads (n.) under dead, adv.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 272: Oh, good-licks; are you in real dead-wood earnest, Tom?at deadwood, adj.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 209: ’Tain’t a dream, then, ’tain’t a dream! Somehow I most wish it was. Dog’d if I don’t, Huck.at dog, v.2
Tom Sawyer 24: Tom responded with jeers, and started off in high feather.at in high feather under feather, n.
Tom Sawyer 92: If he’s as much stunned with the lick and fuddled with the rum as he had the look of being, he won’t think of the knife.at fuddled, adj.
Tom Sawyer 94: When pap’s full, you might take and belt him over the head with a church and you couldn’t phase him.at full, adj.
Tom Sawyer 20: I wish to gee-miny she’d stick to one or t’other – I can’t keep the run of ’em. [Ibid.] 99: ‘Oh, geeminy, it’s him!’ exclaimed both boys.at gemini!, excl.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 256: Whoever nipped the whiskey in No. 2, nipped the money, too, I reckon – anyways it’s a goner for us, Tom.at goner, n.1
Tom Sawyer 193: ‘Do they hop?’ ‘Hop — your granny! No.’.at your granny! (excl.) under granny, n.1
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 228: I’m a kind of a hard lot,—least everybody says so.at hard lot (n.) under hard, adj.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 151: Shut your heads and let Tom go on!at shut one’s head (v.) under head, n.
Tom Sawyer 31: Ben, I’d like to, honest injun; but Aunt Polly —.at honest Injun, phr.
Tom Sawyer 19: He’ll play hookey this evening, and I’ll just be obleeged to make him work, to-morrow, to punish him.at play hooky, v.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 211: I’ll foller him; I will, by jingoes!at jingo!, excl.
Tom Sawyer 49: By jings, don’t you wish you was Jeff?at jings!, excl.
Tom Sawyer 19: He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy.at law’s-a-me! (excl.) under laws!, excl.
Tom Sawyer 8: You can lump that hat if you don’t like it.at lump, v.1
Tom Sawyer 27: Ole missis, she tole me I got to go an’ git dis water.at missis, n.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 256: Whoever nipped the whiskey in No. 2, nipped the money, too, I reckon.at nip, v.1
Tom Sawyer 74: ‘I only just want to stir him up a little, Joe.’ ‘No, sir, it ain’t fair; you just let him alone.’.at no sir!, excl.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 161: It’s nobby fun.at nobby, adj.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 193: I ain’t going to throw off on di’monds. Some of ’em’s worth twenty dollars apiece.at throw off, v.
Tom Sawyer 19: He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy.at old Scratch (n.) under old, adj.
(con. c.1840) Tom Sawyer 256: I don’t want ’em [i.e. criminals] souring on me and doing me mean tricks.at sour on, v.
Tom Sawyer 96: Consound it, Tom Sawyer, you’re just old pie, ’long-side o’ what I am.at old pie (adj.) under pie, adj.1
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