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1  Old Mrs. Shimerda knit yards and yards of lace for her underclothes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
2  The next Sunday Mrs. Shimerda came over and brought Jake a pair of socks she had knitted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
3  At about four o'clock a visitor appeared: Mr. Shimerda, wearing his rabbit-skin cap and collar, and new mittens his wife had knitted.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
4  ""It does seem like I ought to make lace, or knit like Lena used to," she said one day, "but if I start to work, I look around and forget to go on."
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
5  Under his coat he wore a knitted grey vest, and, instead of a collar, a silk scarf of a dark bronze-green, carefully crossed and held together by a red coral pin.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
6  Lena was always knitting stockings for little brothers and sisters, and even the Norwegian women, who disapproved of her, admitted that she was a good daughter to her mother.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
7  Whenever we rode over in that direction we saw her out among her cattle, bareheaded and barefooted, scantily dressed in tattered clothing, always knitting as she watched her herd.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV