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    injun


    1. “Hey Injun, I


    2. ―Okay Injun, how‘s about these apples?‖ He produced a compass and stared at the glowing needle as it settled on the fluorescent N


    3. • HONEST INJUN: Although it stresses the truth of a


    4. S'elp me, honest injun


    5. "Honest injun, now, hain't you been telling me a lot of lies?"


    6. “Appreciate it, Injun,” the man said


    7. Say, Huck, I know another o' them voices; it's Injun Joe


    8. Potter and Injun Joe were carrying a handbarrow with a rope and a couple of shovels on it


    9. "That's the talk!" said Injun Joe


    10. Injun Joe sprang to his feet, his eyes flaming with passion, snatched up Potter's knife, and went creeping, catlike and stooping, round and round about the combatants, seeking an opportunity

    11. Presently, when the moon emerged again, Injun Joe was standing over the two forms, contemplating them


    12. "Because he'd just got that whack when Injun Joe done it


    13. Now Tom shivered from head to heel; for his eye fell upon the stolid face of Injun Joe


    14. He saw Injun Joe, and exclaimed:


    15. Injun Joe repeated his statement, just as calmly, a few minutes afterward on the inquest, under oath; and the boys, seeing that the lightnings were still withheld, were confirmed in their belief that Joe had sold himself to the devil


    16. Injun Joe helped to raise the body of the murdered man and put it in a wagon for removal; and it was whispered through the shuddering crowd that the wound


    17. The villagers had a strong desire to tar-and-feather Injun Joe and ride him on a rail, for body-snatching, but so formidable was his character that nobody could be found who was willing to take the lead in the matter, so it was dropped


    18. At the end of the second day the village talk was to the effect that Injun Joe's evidence stood firm and unshaken, and that there was not the slightest question as to what the jury's verdict would be


    19. After a long wait the jury filed in and took their places; shortly afterward, Potter, pale and haggard, timid and hopeless, was brought in, with chains upon him, and seated where all the curious eyes could stare at him; no less conspicuous was Injun Joe, stolid as ever


    20. Tom glanced at Injun Joe's iron face and his tongue failed him

    21. "—and as the doctor fetched the board around and Muff Potter fell, Injun Joe


    22. Injun Joe infested all his dreams, and always with doom in his eye


    23. Poor Huck was in the same state of wretchedness and terror, for Tom had told the whole story to the lawyer the night before the great day of the trial, and Huck was sore afraid that his share in the business might leak out, yet, notwithstanding Injun Joe's flight had saved him the suffering of testifying in court


    24. Half the time Tom was afraid Injun Joe would never be captured; the other half he was afraid he would be


    25. Rewards had been offered, the country had been scoured, but no Injun Joe was found


    26. It was Injun Joe's! There was silence


    27. Both men presently fell to yawning, and Injun Joe said:


    28. Injun Joe sat up, stared around—smiled grimly upon his comrade, whose head was drooping upon his knees—stirred him up with his foot and said:


    29. Injun Joe took the pick, looked it over critically, shook his head, muttered something to himself, and then began to use it


    30. "Pard, there's thousands of dollars here," said Injun Joe

    31. "I know it," said Injun Joe; "and this looks like it, I should say


    32. Injun Joe put his hand on his knife, halted a moment, undecided, and then turned toward the stairway


    33. The steps came creaking up the stairs—the intolerable distress of the situation woke the stricken resolution of the lads—they were about to spring for the closet, when there was a crash of rotten timbers and Injun Joe landed on the ground amid the debris of the ruined stairway


    34. But for that, Injun Joe never would have suspected


    35. I didn't see anything but a bottle and a tin cup on the floor by Injun Joe; yes, I saw two barrels and lots more bottles in the room


    36. Both Injun Joe and the treasure sunk into secondary importance for a moment, and Becky took the chief place in the boy's interest


    37. He thought all this and more in the moment that elapsed between the stranger's remark and Injun Joe's next—which was—


    38. But an Injun! That's a different matter altogether


    39. He said to himself that if he had strength enough to get back to the spring he would stay there, and nothing should tempt him to run the risk of meeting Injun Joe again


    40. He felt willing to risk Injun Joe and all other terrors

    41. "Oh, Judge, Injun Joe's in the cave!"


    42. Injun Joe's bowie-knife lay close by, its blade broken in two


    43. But if there had been no stony obstruction there the labor would have been useless still, for if the beam had been wholly cut away Injun Joe could not have squeezed his body under the door, and he knew it


    44. Injun Joe's cup stands first in the list of the cavern's marvels; even "Aladdin's Palace" cannot rival it


    45. Injun Joe was buried near the mouth of the cave; and people flocked there in boats and wagons from the towns and from all the farms and hamlets for seven miles around; they brought their children, and all sorts of provisions, and confessed that they had had almost as satisfactory a time at the funeral as they could have had at the hanging


    46. Injun Joe to the widder's


    47. Injun Joe's ghost is round about there, certain


    48. “They says you’re half Injun


    49. You look all Injun to me


    50. The whole of eastern Montana and the western Dakotas is memory-marked as Injun country, and the memories are not very old either


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    Synonyms for "injun"

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    "injun" definitions

    (slang) offensive term for Native Americans