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1  In the evening I used to prowl about, hunting for diversion.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
2  You can quit going to these dances, or you can hunt another place.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: X
3  One night at supper Fuchs told us he had seen Mr. Shimerda out hunting.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
4  When he was out hunting, he used to go into the empty log house and sit there, brooding.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
5  I reminded her how she used to go hunting with me the last summer before we moved to town.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
6  The two girls would wander for miles along the edge of the cornfields, hunting for ground-cherries.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
7  'Don't forget that you and Rudolph are going hunting with me up on the Niobrara next summer,' I said.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: III
8  He lived with me till my money gave out, and afterward I found he hadn't really been hunting work at all.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
9  As we went toward the house, we met Ambrosch and Anton, starting off with their milking-pails to hunt the cows.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
10  When he began to look about, he saw Antonia, and she was exactly the kind of girl he had always been hunting for.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
11  Grandmother hunted up her fancy cake-cutters and baked gingerbread men and roosters, which we decorated with burnt sugar and red cinnamon drops.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
12  Then he put on a clean shirt and clean socks, and after he was dressed he kissed her and the little one and took his gun and said he was going out to hunt rabbits.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
13  That afternoon she was telling me how highly esteemed our friend the badger was in her part of the world, and how men kept a special kind of dog, with very short legs, to hunt him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
14  Charley Harling and I had hunted through these woods, fished from the fallen logs, until I knew every inch of the river shores and had a friendly feeling for every bar and shallow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
15  After the apple and cherry trees broke into bloom, we ran about under them, hunting for the new nests the birds were building, throwing clods at each other, and playing hide-and-seek with Nina.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
16  She loved to put up lunches for him when he went hunting, to mend his ball-gloves and sew buttons on his shooting-coat, baked the kind of nut-cake he liked, and fed his setter dog when he was away on trips with his father.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III