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1  Peter was very fond of his cow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
2  We found Russian Peter digging his potatoes.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
3  Sometimes Peter came to church at the sod schoolhouse.
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4  I had never seen anyone eat so many melons as Peter ate.
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5  Peter dried his hands and seemed glad to leave his washing.
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6  We found Peter out behind his kitchen, bending over a washtub.
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7  Their last names were unpronounceable, so they were called Pavel and Peter.
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8  When we got up to go, Peter looked about in perplexity for something that would entertain us.
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9  Peter, his companion, was a very different sort of fellow; short, bow-legged, and as fat as butter.
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10  After he had shown us his garden, Peter trundled a load of watermelons up the hill in his wheelbarrow.
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11  I had heard our neighbours laughing when they told how Peter always had to go home at night to milk his cow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
12  Peter put the melons in a row on the oilcloth-covered table and stood over them, brandishing a butcher knife.
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13  Before we left, Peter put ripe cucumbers into a sack for Mrs. Shimerda and gave us a lard-pail full of milk to cook them in.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
14  I had been adequately armed by Russian Peter; the snake was old and lazy; and I had Antonia beside me, to appreciate and admire.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
15  One day when I rode over to the Shimerdas' I found Antonia starting off on foot for Russian Peter's house, to borrow a spade Ambrosch needed.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
16  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
17  Peter told his troubles to Mr. Shimerda: he was unable to meet a note which fell due on the first of November; had to pay an exorbitant bonus on renewing it, and to give a mortgage on his pigs and horses and even his milk cow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
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