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Tom Sawyer   /tɑm sˈɔjər/   Listen
Tom Sawyer

noun
1.
The boy hero of a novel by Mark Twain.





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"Tom sawyer" Quotes from Famous Books



... American thing in that great American epic is Tom Sawyer's elaboration of an extremely difficult and romantic scheme, taking days to carry out, for securing the escape of the nigger Jim, which could have been managed quite easily in twenty minutes. You know how fond they are of lodges and brotherhoods. Every ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
... startle Europe by a brilliant appearance on any stage, he could keep it talking and guessing by a disappearance. He obviously relished secrecy, pass-words, disguises, the 'properties' of the conspirator, in the spirit of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. He came of an evasive race. His grandfather, as Duke of York, had fled from England disguised as a girl. His father had worn many disguises in many adventures. ...
— Pickle the Spy • Andrew Lang


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