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1  My grandparents looked very little older.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
2  I went home to my grandparents for a few weeks, and afterward visited my relatives in Virginia until I joined Cleric in Boston.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
3  The first time I deceived my grandparents I felt rather shabby, perhaps even the second time, but I soon ceased to think about it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
4  Whenever my grandparents had misgivings, and began to wonder whether I was not too young to go off to college alone, Mrs. Harling took up my cause vigorously.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
5  I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  I told her about the feeling of her father's presence I had on that winter day when my grandparents had gone over to see his dead body and I was left alone in the house.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
7  SOON AFTER I GOT home that summer, I persuaded my grandparents to have their photographs taken, and one morning I went into the photographer's shop to arrange for sittings.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II