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1  Carol found the Marburys admiring and therefore admirable.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Carol found the Marburys admiring and therefore admirable.
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3  If I stood by and admired him long enough, I would be content.
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4  As they drove off Carol admired, "She's the dearest thing I ever saw."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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5  Kennicott read the poster and to Calibree admired, "Strong lodge, the Beavers."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  She admired Erik's dance; he could never betray bad taste, as Cy did, and Dave.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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7  It wasn't enough for him that I admired him; I must change myself and grow like him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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8  He had some admirable stories about the tricks the town youngsters had played on Valborg.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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9  She knew that they were thinking of becoming shocked, but Juanita Haydock was admiring, at least.
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10  She identified him with the virile land; she admired him as she saw with what respect the farmers obeyed him.
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11  Juanita had become patronizing, and she glanced disrespectfully at Carol's golden sash, which she had previously admired.
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12  She told herself a thousand inspiriting things which he would say if he had the opportunity; for them she admired him, loved him.
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13  She tried to look admiring, for the benefit of Miss Sherwin, that trusting admirer of all that was or conceivably could be the good, the true, and the beautiful.
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14  This altogether admirable tradition rules the vaudeville stage, facetious illustrators, and syndicated newspaper humor, but out of actual life it passed forty years ago.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  When she did contrive to get sweetbreads at Dahl & Oleson's Meat Market the triumph was so vast that she buzzed with excitement and admired the strong wise butcher, Mr. Dahl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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16  She caught herself criticizing his belief that, since his joke about trying to keep her out of the poorhouse had once been accepted as admirable humor, it should continue to be his daily bon mot.
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17  She asserted, "This silly lobby is too florid," and simultaneously she admired it: the onyx columns with gilt capitals, the crown-embroidered velvet curtains at the restaurant door, the silk-roped alcove where pretty girls perpetually waited for mysterious men, the two-pound boxes of candy and the variety of magazines at the news-stand.
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