Tom said it was tough to have to keep mum now; said we would be heroes if we could come out and tell all we knowed; but after all, it was still more heroic to keep mum, there warn't two boys in a million could
do it. That was Tom Sawyer's idea about it, and reckoned there warn't anybody could better it.
Tom Sawyer Detective
I can
do it, for I have May Chester as a model, and I'll improve upon her.
Little Women
He wanted me to challenge that derned Italian savage, and I wouldn't
do it."
Puddnhead Wilson
If he did not
do it, then the adventure would be proved to have been only a dream.
Tom Sawyer
And one's very liable to
do it in their case--both having mouths, you know--"
Sylvie and Bruno
"If I'm going in for painting I must
do it thoroughly, and it's only in Paris that you can get the real thing."
Of Human Bondage