, and Judge Thatcher did the same with Tom's at Aunt Polly's request.
Tom Sawyer was in the skiff that bore Judge Thatcher.
Thatcher was very ill, and a great part of the time delirious.
Thatcher discovered that Becky was not at Mrs.
Thatcher turned pale, and sank into a pew, just as Aunt Polly, talking briskly with a friend, passed by.
Thatcher said to Becky, was: "You'll not get back till late.
Becky Thatcher was gone to her Constantinople home to stay with her parents during vacation—so there was no bright side to life anywhere.
He started to school and had the luck of coming upon Becky Thatcher at the head of Meadow Lane.
Tom decided that he could be independent of Becky Thatcher now.
In the afternoon Becky Thatcher found herself moping about the deserted schoolhouse yard, and feeling very melancholy.
Bob Tanner was there, and Johnny Miller, and Jeff Thatcher, when I said it.
Becky Thatcher had stopped coming to school.
When school broke up at noon, Tom flew to Becky Thatcher, and whispered in her ear: "Put on your bonnet and let on you're going home; and when you get to the corner, give the rest of 'em the slip, and turn down through the lane and come back.
" "Why, he told Jeff Thatcher, and Jeff told Johnny Baker, and Johnny told Jim Hollis, and Jim told Ben Rogers, and Ben told a nigger, and the nigger told me.
A good part of the whispering had been occasioned by an event which was more or less rare—the entrance of visitors: lawyer Thatcher, accompanied by a very feeble and aged man; a fine, portly, middle-aged gentleman with iron-gray hair; and a dignified lady who was doubtless the latter's wife.
As he was passing by the house where Jeff Thatcher lived, he saw a new girl in the garden—a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes.
The scientist, whose discoveries in the field of radiation helped develop X-rays and cancer treatments, beat Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana and Jane Austen in a poll by BBC History Magazine.
The scientist, whose discoveries in the field of radiation helped develop X-rays and cancer treatments, beat Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana and Jane Austen in a poll by BBC History Magazine.
The gene the team identified is called ABCC9 and has been nicknamed the "Thatcher gene" in honor of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, famous for needing as little as four hours of sleep a night.
Some people like Margaret Thatcher, Gandhi and Winston Churchill may have famously thrived on less sleep but they're a rarity.
