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1  I've wound the clock and looked at the furnace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  The clock's bell, at half past five, aroused her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  In front of it, at the curb, a huge wooden clock which did not go.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Kennicott considered the matter while he wound the clock and they tramped up-stairs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  It was the rapid ticking of the clock which had hypnotized her into hearing the steady hoofs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Till they had a maid they took noon dinner and six o'clock supper at Mrs. Gurrey's boarding-house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  She had fled half-way through it before the three o'clock bell called her to the class in English history.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  He was too shocked to go on with his duties of locking the front door and winding his watch and the clock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  He came through the kitchen energetically, but before he spoke to her he did stop in the hall, did wind the clock.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  I don't know but what you can elocute just as good as Ella Stowbody, she banged the book and suggested that they were not too late for the nine o'clock show at the movies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
11  He yawned, went out to look at the thermometer, slammed the door, patted her head, unbuttoned his waistcoat, yawned, wound the clock, went down to look at the furnace, yawned, and clumped up-stairs to bed, casually scratching his thick woolen undershirt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Her task wouldn't be anything so lively as having to endure a scolding, but only an exasperating effort to command his attention so that he would understand the nebulous things she had to tell him, instead of interrupting her by yawning, winding the clock, and going up to bed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
13  Damp black iron sink, damp whitey-yellow drain-board with shreds of discolored wood which from long scrubbing were as soft as cotton thread, warped table, alarm clock, stove bravely blackened by Oscarina but an abomination in its loose doors and broken drafts and oven that never would keep an even heat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV