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1  She rose with a jeune fille bow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  She rose to a radiance of sun on snow.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  Kennicott rose quickly, sat on the couch, took both her hands.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  She rose slowly, slowly stepped over the water in the bottom of the old boat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  Only the tall red grain-elevator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Then she wondered if he liked her hat, the new Oriental turban of rose and silver brocade.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  It was luxurious in bed, and the house would be warm for her when she rose, she reflected.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  From meanly hating him she rose to compassion as she saw that his eyes begged every one to like him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  She never got much farther than recognizing the tiger lily and the wild rose, but she rediscovered Hugh.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
10  Mounds of straw, and wheat-stacks like bee-hives, stood out in startling rose and gold, and the green-tufted stubble glistened.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
11  She rose after the service, carefully taking Kennicott's arm and smiling at him in a mute assertion that she was devoted to him no matter what happened.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
12  She reflected that if she could not have ballrooms of gray and rose and crystal, she wanted to be swinging across a puncheon-floor with a dancing fiddler.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  So sprinkled was the pasture with rag-baby blossoms and the cottony herb of Indian tobacco that it spread out like a rare old Persian carpet of cream and rose and delicate green.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  The sunset was merely a flush of rose on a dome of silver, with oak twigs and thin poplar branches against it, but a silo on the horizon changed from a red tank to a tower of violet misted over with gray.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  The whine of the saw rose till it simulated the shriek of a fire-alarm whistle at night, but always at the end it gave a lively metallic clang, and in the stillness she heard the flump of the cut stick falling on the pile.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
16  It was furnished with discarded patent rockers, lopsided reed chairs, a scratched pine table, a gritty straw mat, old steel engravings of milkmaids being morally amorous under willow-trees, faded chromos of roses and fish, and a kerosene stove for warming lunches.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
17  The bed was rickety, with a thin knotty mattress; the sand-colored walls were scratched and gouged; in every corner, under everything, were fluffy dust and cigar ashes; on the tilted wash-stand was a nicked and squatty pitcher; the only chair was a grim straight object of spotty varnish; but there was an altogether splendid gilt and rose cuspidor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
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