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1  He had certainly met his match when he married Mrs. Cutter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
2  Cutter was one of the 'fast set' of Black Hawk business men.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
3  Peter could give no very clear account of his transactions with Cutter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
4  Cutter's first name was Wycliffe, and he liked to talk about his pious bringing-up.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
5  Once, when Cutter was exhibiting some of his wife's china to a caller, he dropped a piece.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
6  It was a peculiar combination of old-maidishness and licentiousness that made Cutter seem so despicable.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
7  Cutter thought he knew a great deal about horses, and usually had a colt which he was training for the track.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
8  Cutter lived in a state of perpetual warfare with his wife, and yet, apparently, they never thought of separating.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
9  The chief of these was the question of inheritance: Mrs. Cutter told her husband it was plainly his fault they had no children.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
10  When a farmer once got into the habit of going to Cutter, it was like gambling or the lottery; in an hour of discouragement he went back.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
11  More than once they put their wits together to rescue some unfortunate farmer from the clutches of Wick Cutter, the Black Hawk money-lender.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
12  Mrs. Cutter had several times cut paragraphs about unfaithful husbands out of the newspapers and mailed them to Cutter in a disguised handwriting.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
13  Mrs. Cutter painted china so assiduously that even her wash-bowls and pitchers, and her husband's shaving-mug, were covered with violets and lilies.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
14  His creditor was Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk money-lender, a man of evil name throughout the county, of whom I shall have more to say later.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
15  Cutter would come home at noon, find the mutilated journal in the paper-rack, and triumphantly fit the clipping into the space from which it had been cut.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
16  They quarrelled from the moment Cutter came into the house until they went to bed at night, and their hired girls reported these scenes to the town at large.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
17  Cutter boasted that he never drank anything stronger than sherry, and he said he got his start in life by saving the money that other young men spent for cigars.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
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