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1  During those first months the Shimerdas never went to town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
2  After weeks on the ocean, the Shimerdas were famished for fruit.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
3  FOR SEVERAL WEEKS after my sleigh-ride, we heard nothing from the Shimerdas.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
4  Grandmother told grandfather she meant to go over to the Shimerdas' with him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
5  The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family to come to this part of the county.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
6  They went about making signs to people, and until the Shimerdas came they had no friends.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
7  There never were such people as the Shimerdas for wanting to give away everything they had.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
8  No wagon could be got to the Shimerdas' until a road was broken, and that would be a day's job.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
9  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
10  On the day before Christmas, Jake packed the things we were sending to the Shimerdas in his saddle-bags and set off on grandfather's grey gelding.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
11  The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
12  As we approached the Shimerdas' dwelling, I could still see nothing but rough red hillocks, and draws with shelving banks and long roots hanging out where the earth had crumbled away.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  I never forgot the strange taste; though it was many years before I knew that those little brown shavings, which the Shimerdas had brought so far and treasured so jealously, were dried mushrooms.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
14  He reported that the coroner would reach the Shimerdas' sometime that afternoon, but the missionary priest was at the other end of his parish, a hundred miles away, and the trains were not running.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
15  When Antonia and her father got into the wagon, I entreated grandmother to let me go with them: I would gladly go without my supper, I would sleep in the Shimerdas' barn and run home in the morning.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
16  After we sat down to our waffles and sausage, Jake told us how pleased the Shimerdas had been with their presents; even Ambrosch was friendly and went to the creek with him to cut the Christmas tree.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
17  He said he would have come to see the Shimerdas before, but he had hired out to husk corn all the fall, and since winter began he had been going to the school by the mill, to learn English, along with the little children.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
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