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Day 10 - At (2)

I mentioned in the link below that I found about 330 instances of the preposition 'at' in the text, and I’ve shared some of them along with GPT's analysis on that page. Here, I am providing more of these cases, this time with Gemini's analysis:

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Pecking Order

Observing the behavior of individual fowl in a henhouse, we note that birds lower in rank are pecked by, and give way to, birds of higher rank. In an ideal case, there exists a linear order of rank with a top hen who pecks all the others. Those in th

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Day 9 - At (1)

Found about 330 “at”s in the text, and these are some of them, along with GPT’s explanations.

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* The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this stor

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Day 8 - went out

I was able to find four “went out” phrases in the whole Tom Sawyer text. I’m studying prepositions and looking at the uses of “at.” I found about 330 instances of “at” in the text, and I’ll share some of them gradually here. But for now, the four “we

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Round 24: It is an object

Hi friends,

My word is an object.

“Please, ask me yes/no questions and each time ask one question.

Hope you enjoy the game.

Hints:

It is portable.

It is soft.

It is used as a tool for a challenge signal.

You can buy it easily from Brazil.

The puzzle was solve

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Day 7 - Bother!

Aunt Polly was vexed to think she had overlooked that bit of circumstantial evidence, and missed a trick. Then she had a new inspiration:

“Tom, you didn’t have to undo your shirt collar where I sewed it, to pump on your head, did you? Unbutton your ja

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Day 6 - simple-hearted souls

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While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep—for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments. Like many other simple-hearted souls, it was her

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Day 5 - supper

Tom did play hookey, and he had a very good time. He got back home barely in season to help Jim, the small colored boy, saw next-day’s wood and split the kindlings before supper—at least he was there in time to tell his adventures to Jim while Jim di

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Day 4 - Well-a-well

Well-a-well, man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble, as the Scripture says, and I reckon it’s so. He’ll play hookey this evening*, and I’ll just be obleeged to make him work, tomorrow, to punish him. It’s mighty hard to make him

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Day 3 - Old Scratch

I ain’t doing my duty by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own

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Day 1 – Where’s Tom?

CHAPTER I


 “TOM!”

No answer.

“TOM!”

No answer.

“What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!”

No answer.

The old lady pulled her spectacles down and looked over them about the room; then she put them up and looked out under them. She seldom or never looke

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