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1  He had a delicate skin, easily roughened by sun and wind.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
2  Outside I could hear the wind singing over hundreds of miles of snow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
3  After the sun sank, a cold wind sprang up and moaned over the prairie.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
4  While we snuggled down there out of the wind, she learned a score of words.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
5  The road was clear and white, and the groom's three blacks went like the wind.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
6  Yulka forgot to give me back my comforter, and I had to drive home directly against the wind.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
7  The wind was so strong that I had to hold my hat on, and the girls' skirts were blown out before them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
8  The wind shook the doors and windows impatiently, then swept on again, singing through the big spaces.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
9  Antonia and I sat erect, but I held the reins clumsily, and my eyes were blinded by the wind a good deal of the time.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  The wind had the burning taste of fresh snow; my throat and nostrils smarted as if someone had opened a hartshorn bottle.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
11  Blue puffs of smoke came from the stovepipe that stuck out through the grass and snow, but the wind whisked them roughly away.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
12  I was lying in a little room, scarcely larger than the bed that held me, and the window-shade at my head was flapping softly in a warm wind.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
13  There in the sheltered draw-bottom the wind did not blow very hard, but I could hear it singing its humming tune up on the level, and I could see the tall grasses wave.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
14  All about us the snow was crusted in shallow terraces, with tracings like ripple-marks at the edges, curly waves that were the actual impression of the stinging lash in the wind.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
15  It was surrounded by a triple enclosure; the wire fence, then the hedge of thorny locusts, then the mulberry hedge which kept out the hot winds of summer and held fast to the protecting snows of winter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
16  At some distance behind the house were an ash grove and two orchards: a cherry orchard, with gooseberry and currant bushes between the rows, and an apple orchard, sheltered by a high hedge from the hot winds.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
17  Perhaps the glide of long railway travel was still with me, for more than anything else I felt motion in the landscape; in the fresh, easy-blowing morning wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy grass were a sort of loose hide, and underneath it herds of wild buffalo were galloping, galloping.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
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