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How to use Twain in a sentence

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In the closing years of the 19th century, Mark Twain, shocked by chauvinist reactions to the rebellion, sounded the alarm.
The book also supplied Twain with enough money to invest in the printing-machine venture that eventually bankrupted him.
How did Mark Twain end up fighting against forced labor in the Belgian Congo?
At 13, Avril won the grand prize in a radio station contest, a trip to Ottawa to perform a duet in concert with Shania Twain.
When Harper's Magazine was looking for somebody to put on the cover of their sesquicentennial issue alongside Mark Twain, there was you.
By his side was the familiar, loose-jointed figure of Mark Twain, getting over ground with his usual shambling gait.
Whereas Twain on the warpath was a sharpshooting rifleman and Mencken laid about with the broadsword, Brooks's literary weapon is the tweezers.
The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage.
Another tool that Twain provides for Jim on his quest for freedom is the latter's belief in the spirit world.
The libretto turns a typical Twain idea of human weakness into a celebration of the small town against the wicked city slicker.
Twain was especially impressed with the brilliant color and uncommonness of the Eastern costume.
Soon after being seated, down the main aisle to his pew walked Mark Twain, 24 with his big head of bushy hair.
Mark Twain claimed never to have coined a word as far as he knew, though historical dictionaries list him as the first user of many.
I think it was Mark Twain who said nobody ever went broke overestimating the idiocy of the American television punditocracy.
With Twain, America gained a recognisable literary voice and form, just as it started on its path to superpower status.
Whereas Twain on the warpath was a sharp shooting rifleman and Mencken laid about with the broadsword, Brooks's literary weapon is the tweezers.
I was before I came here, but someone in this computer lab is playing a Shania Twain album on a CD drive and it's doing my nut!
An adequate response to this mutual lionisation would require the skills of a Jonathan Swift or Mark Twain.
Twain sometimes thought of himself as a modern Noah warning of a doomsday to come.
Shania's dad leaves the family when she is two, her mother remarrying Jerry Twain, an Ojibwa Indian.
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To any who had formed the idea that Mark Twain was irascible, exacting, and faultfinding, they will perhaps be a revelation.
In the same way, Mark Twain as humorist has sought the highest common factor of all nations.
In truth, Mark Twain was an impressionist, rather than an imaginative artist.
On his seventieth birthday Mark Twain was dazzled by his liberty.
The word of which Twain proposed spelling ov, is misspelt as av more than once.
Mark Twain was not a pessimist in his heart, but only by premeditation.
In the 1601 Mark Twain outdid himself in the Elizabethan field.
Of all men, Mark Twain was the last one to countenance an extortion.
Choate's address was ably given, and Mark Twain was at his best.
That letter and its inclosure brought only sorrow to Mark Twain.
Mark Twain made his first investment in Redding that spring.
No doubt this fairly presents Mark Twain, the lecturer of that day.
Well-known diarists featured include Mark Twain, John Muir, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
In letters, in life, Mark Twain is the American par excellence.
If the word is so unbearably offensive that it cannot be mentioned even in a discussion about its offensiveness, then why object to the bowdlerized Twain?
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