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1  He came to Nebraska to visit his cousin, Anton Jelinek, and to look about.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
2  The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
3  All alike had come to Nebraska with little capital and no knowledge of the soil they must subdue.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
4  I do not remember crossing the Missouri River, or anything about the long day's journey through Nebraska.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
5  He had in some way lost on exchange in New York, and the railway fare to Nebraska was more than they had expected.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
6  JULY CAME ON with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the plains of Kansas and Nebraska the best corn country in the world.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
7  At school we were taught that he had not got so far north as Nebraska, but had given up his quest and turned back somewhere in Kansas.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
8  On my way East I broke my journey at Hastings, in Nebraska, and set off with an open buggy and a fairly good livery team to find the Cuzak farm.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
9  My business took me West several times every year, and it was always in the back of my mind that I would stop in Nebraska some day and go to see Antonia.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
10  I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
11  At night, before I went to sleep, I often found myself in a sledge drawn by three horses, dashing through a country that looked something like Nebraska and something like Virginia.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII