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1  Krajiek's gone silly, Jake, and so have you.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
2  Krajiek says he's turrible strong and can stand anything.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
3  Krajiek was their only interpreter, and could tell them anything he chose.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
4  No wonder Krajiek got the better of these people, if this was how they behaved.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
5  Krajiek could understand them a little, but he had cheated them in a trade, so they avoided him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
6  She mixed her dough, we discovered, in an old tin peck-measure that Krajiek had used about the barn.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
7  While Krajiek was translating for Mr. Shimerda, Antonia came up to me and held out her hand coaxingly.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
8  While I stood awkwardly confronting the two girls, Krajiek came up from the barn to see what was going on.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
9  'If they're nice people, I hate to think of them spending the winter in that cave of Krajiek's,' said grandmother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
10  Krajiek encouraged them in the belief that in Black Hawk they would somehow be mysteriously separated from their money.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
11  By the time they paid Krajiek for the land, and bought his horses and oxen and some old farm machinery, they had very little money left.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
12  He seemed to find this case very perplexing, and said if it had not been for grandfather he would have sworn out a warrant against Krajiek.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
13  They hated Krajiek, but they clung to him because he was the only human being with whom they could talk or from whom they could get information.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
14  When Mr. Shimerda and Krajiek drove up in their wagon to take Peter to the train, they found him with a dripping beard, surrounded by heaps of melon rinds.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
15  The Bohemian family, grandmother told me as we drove along, had bought the homestead of a fellow countryman, Peter Krajiek, and had paid him more than it was worth.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
16  Although it was perfectly clear that Mr. Shimerda had killed himself, Jake and the coroner thought something ought to be done to Krajiek because he behaved like a guilty man.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
17  Well, ma'm, I found Krajiek's axe under the manger, and I picks it up and carries it over to the corpse, and I take my oath it just fit the gash in the front of the old man's face.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
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