| The book also supplied Twain with enough money to invest in the printing-machine venture that eventually bankrupted him. |
| Whereas Twain on the warpath was a sharpshooting rifleman and Mencken laid about with the broadsword, Brooks's literary weapon is the tweezers. |
| Twain was especially impressed with the brilliant color and uncommonness of the Eastern costume. |
| Another tool that Twain provides for Jim on his quest for freedom is the latter's belief in the spirit world. |
| The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage. |
| An adequate response to this mutual lionisation would require the skills of a Jonathan Swift or Mark Twain. |
