Huck Finn

“Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked [him] if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books…”

Tom Sawyer

“When he had got out on the shed, he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him…”

Pap

“Afterward [he] said the witches bewitched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the state, and then set him under the trees again, and hung his hat on a limb to show who done it.”

Jim

“The woman fell to talking about how hard times was…and how the rats was as free as if they owned the place…She said she had to have things handy to throw at them when she was alone…”

Judith Loftus

“Then he turns around, blubbering, and makes lots of idiotic signs to the duke…on his hands…”

The King

“...She cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb…She put me in them new clothes again…”

Widow Douglas

“His hair was long and tangled and greasy…As for his clothes - just rags, that was all.”

Pap

 “We had [him] out of chains in no time, and when Aunt Polly and Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally found out how good he helped the doctor nurse Tom, they made a heap of fuss over him...”

Jim

“‘Don’t put your feet up there, Huckleberry…Don’t scrunch up like that, Huckleberry.’”

Miss Watson

“‘People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum - but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t a-going back there, anyways.’”

Huck

“‘Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it’s like. Here’s the law a-standing ready to take a man’s son away from him - a man’s own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising.’”

Pap

“‘Doan’ you ‘member de house dat was float’n down de river, en dey wuz a man in dah, kivered up, en I went in en unkivered him and didn’t let you come in?’”

Jim

“‘Here is my answer. Take this six thousand dollars, and invest for me and my sisters any way you want to, and don’t give no receipt for it..’”

Mary Jane Wilks

“‘Yo’ ole father doan’ know yit what he’s a-gwyne to do.’”

Huck

“‘I hain’t got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher; he’ll tell you the same.’”

Pap

“‘When I first see you I says to myself, “It’s Mr. Wilks, sure, and he come mighty near getting here in time”…You ain’t him, are you?’”

The King