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I Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Detective Ch Things—Brace

Sentence 1896, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective, ch. 11:

"I done the other things—Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it."
Definition (
idiomatic
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic
) To
encourage
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encourage
or
trick
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trick
(someone) to perform an action which is
foolish
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foolish
or
wrong
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrong
.

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