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1  Even when the food was gone they remained cheerful.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  When the patients were gone she brought in her bundles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
3  But now that he was gone the house was listeningly empty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  When she found that he was gone she was slightly disconcerted.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  His mother had left Carol her love, and gone back to Lac-qui-Meurt.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Kennicott had felt rather complimented; had gone out and distributed a dollar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  If you'd gone on the stage, I believe you'd be just as good as anybody in Minneapolis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  He had been gone since morning; her eyes ached with reading; Vida Sherwin could not come to tea.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  But now that the summer mask of leaves and grass was gone, Carol discovered misery and dead hope.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  This morning of late January, two or three weeks after Vida's revelations, Carol had gone into the stable-garage to find a hammer.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  The snow was gone except for filthy woolly patches under trees, the thermometer leaped in a day from wind-bitten chill to itchy warmth.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  Instantly the vision was gone; Carol was back in the long darkness; and Kennicott was giving his version of that fire and wonder: "No."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  She had gone to the women at afternoon-coffees, to the merchants in their stores, with so many outpouring comments and whimsies that she hadn't given them a chance to betray their opinions of her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  They were strong and enduring; for an hour at a time they could go on heaving questions about her father's income, about her theology, and about the reason why she had not put on her rubbers when she had gone across the street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
15  Ella Stowbody had once gone to a Jolly Seventeen Soiree in the village hack, hitherto confined to chief mourners at funerals; and Harry Haydock and Dr. Terry Gould always appeared in the town's only specimens of evening clothes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
16  The roundhouse and repair-shops were gone, but two conductors still retained residence, and they were persons of distinction, men who traveled and talked to strangers, who wore uniforms with brass buttons, and knew all about these crooked games of con-men.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
17  He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson Elder's planing-mill; he was to be seen upon the streets endeavoring to be neighborly with suspicious men whom he had taunted for years.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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