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1  Lena Lingard laughed, as if this pleased her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
2  Miss Lingard,' he went on, 'is an absolutely trustful heart.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
3  I ran home to tell grandmother that Lena Lingard had come to town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
4  Chris Lingard was not a very successful farmer, and he had a large family.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
5  He took all the dances Lena Lingard would give him, and even grew bold enough to walk home with her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
6  Lovely table-linen the Harlings had given her, and Lena Lingard had sent her nice things from Lincoln.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
7  There was a crackling in the branches above us, and Lena Lingard peered down over the edge of the bank.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
8  If you mean me, Mr. Ordinsky, I have known Miss Lingard a long time, and I think I appreciate her kindness.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
9  But Lena Lingard only laughed her lazy, good-natured laugh and rode on, gazing back over her shoulder at Ole's infuriated wife.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
10  If I told my schoolmates that Lena Lingard's grandfather was a clergyman, and much respected in Norway, they looked at me blankly.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
11  The only two human beings of whom she spoke with any feeling were the Swede, Johnson, who had given her his claim, and Lena Lingard.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
12  When Ole was cultivating his corn that summer, he used to get discouraged in the field, tie up his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
13  Lena Lingard came across the stubble barefoot, in a short skirt, with a curved reaping-hook in her hand, and she was flushed like the dawn, with a kind of luminous rosiness all about her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
14  I could not forgive her for becoming an object of pity, while Lena Lingard, for whom people had always foretold trouble, was now the leading dressmaker of Lincoln, much respected in Black Hawk.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
15  And that Lena Lingard, that was always a bad one, say what you will, had turned out so well, and was coming home here every summer in her silks and her satins, and doing so much for her mother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
16  Not long after Mary came back from the asylum, I heard a young Dane, who was helping us to thresh, tell Jake and Otto that Chris Lingard's oldest girl had put Ole Benson out of his head, until he had no more sense than his crazy wife.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
17  But sometimes a young fellow would look up from his ledger, or out through the grating of his father's bank, and let his eyes follow Lena Lingard, as she passed the window with her slow, undulating walk, or Tiny Soderball, tripping by in her short skirt and striped stockings.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
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