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1  He kissed her lightly and slipped away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  He lighted the cigar and puffed savagely.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  She collided with the problem of lighting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  The settings seemed flimsy, the lighting commonplace.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
5  Light from the fire-box splashed the under side of the trailing smoke.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  There were three gradations of lighting: full on, half on, and entirely off.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  The lights of the thrumming car grew magically; were upon them; abruptly stopped.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
8  For an hour she heard him moving about his room, lighting a cigar, drumming with his knuckles on a chair.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  Jack Elder lighted the shavings waiting in the belly of a cast-iron stove which was like an enlarged bean-pot.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  While her mind groped, the lights of a motor car swooped round a bend in the road, and they stood farther apart.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
11  But his eyes were pink and unlovely in the flare of the match with which he lighted his dead and malodorous cigar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  They trailed up-stairs, after he had turned out the lights and twice tested the front door to make sure it was fast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  She followed a furrow between low wheat blades and a field of rye which showed silver lights as it flowed before the wind.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  They were composed of ornamented posts with clusters of high-powered electric lights along two or three blocks on Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  She was motoring with Kennicott, the car lumping through darkness, the lights showing mud-puddles and ragged weeds by the road.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
16  Against the protest of Kennicott and Vida she mortgaged the association by sending to Minneapolis for a baby spotlight, a strip light, a dimming device, and blue and amber bulbs; and with the gloating rapture of a born painter first turned loose among colors, she spent absorbed evenings in grouping, dimming-painting with lights.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII