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All of them are on the wrong track!!

Right track.
"Fulfilling" was closer than "keeping", and "promise" is about as good as "'threat" (although in this narrative context, "threat" is closer).

"Patience" remains the best guess I think.

Disappointment and the first cat are correct.

Bibles is on a right general rack.

Then came the ____.

During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its ____. He was very ill, he was interested in nothing. When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly down town, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature. There had been a "revival," and everybody had "got religion," not only the adults, but even the boys and girls. Tom went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and found him visiting the poor with a basket of ____. He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late ____ as a warning. Every boy he encountered added another ____ to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.

And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him. He believed he had ____ the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result. It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and ____ to kill a bug with a battery of ____, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunder storm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.

By and by the tempest spent itself and died without ____ its ____. The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform. His second was to wait for there might not be any more storms.

Then came the ____.

During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its ____. He was very ill, he was interested in nothing. When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly down town, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature. There had been a "revival," and everybody had "got religion," not only the adults, but even the boys and girls. Tom went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and found him visiting the poor with a basket of ____. He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late ____ as a warning. Every boy he encountered added another t____ to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.

And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him. He believed he had ____ the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result. It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and a____ to kill a bug with a battery of ____, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunder storm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.

By and by the tempest spent itself and died without a____ its ____. The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform. His second was to wait for there might not be any more storms.




More specific.

Blanking this out could be seen as unfair/uninteresting, but something about the character makes it less random than it seems.

Best guess so far. About the right degree of vagueness, although maybe you could say it's not enough.

"Bibles/images" were the best guesses.

Then came the ____.

During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its ____. He was very ill, he was interested in nothing. When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly down town, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature. There had been a "revival," and everybody had "got religion," not only the adults, but even the boys and girls. Tom went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and found him visiting the poor with a basket of t____. He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late ____ as a warning. Every boy he encountered added another t____ to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.

And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him. He believed he had t____ the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result. It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and a____ to kill a bug with a battery of a____, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunder storm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.

By and by the tempest spent itself and died without a____ its o____. The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform. His second was to wait for there might not be any more storms.




I thought something of that sort would come up, but nope!

Hm, I'd say the right word is even more abstract.
About as good as "Bible": right general track.

Then came the malaria/indigestion/poisoning.

During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its life/spirit. He was very ill, he was interested in nothing. When he got upon his feet at last and moved feebly down town, a melancholy change had come over everything and every creature. There had been a "revival," and everybody had "got religion," not only the adults, but even the boys and girls. Tom went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. He found Joe Harper studying a Testament, and turned sadly away from the depressing spectacle. He sought Ben Rogers, and found him visiting the poor with a basket of t____. He hunted up Jim Hollis, who called his attention to the precious blessing of his late ____ as a warning. Every boy he encountered added another t____ to his depression; and when, in desperation, he flew for refuge at last to the bosom of Huckleberry Finn and was received with a scriptural quotation, his heart broke and he crept home and to bed realizing that he alone of all the town was lost, forever and forever.

And that night there came on a terrific storm, with driving rain, awful claps of thunder and blinding sheets of lightning. He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that all this hubbub was about him. He believed he had t____ the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result. It might have seemed to him a waste of pomp and a____ to kill a bug with a battery of artillery, but there seemed nothing incongruous about the getting up such an expensive thunder storm as this to knock the turf from under an insect like himself.

By and by the tempest spent itself and died without acting its o____. The boy's first impulse was to be grateful, and reform. His second was to wait for there might not be any more storms.