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1  I was jealous of Tony's admiration for Charley Harling.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
2  It was impossible not to admire his frank, manly faith.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
3  Antonia looked eagerly about the house and admired everything.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
4  I admired the cheerful zest with which grandmother went about keeping us warm and comfortable and well-fed.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
5  Although I admired scholarship so much in Cleric, I was not deceived about myself; I knew that I should never be a scholar.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
6  Antonia often quoted his opinions to me, and she let me see that she admired him, while she thought of me only as a little boy.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
7  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
8  Selma was a studious girl, who had not much tolerance for giddy things like Tiny and Lena; but they always spoke of her with admiration.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
9  I remember how admiringly all the boys looked at her the night she first wore her velveteen dress, made like Mrs. Gardener's black velvet.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
10  Lena's candid eyes, that always looked a little sleepy under their long lashes, kept straying about the cheerful rooms with naive admiration.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
11  We all stood by and watched admiringly while Fuchs rode into the corral with a pitchfork and prodded the bulls again and again, finally driving them apart.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
12  They contemplated the photographs with pleased recognition; looked at some admiringly, as if these characters in their mother's girlhood had been remarkable people.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
13  The three Marys were considered as dangerous as high explosives to have about the kitchen, yet they were such good cooks and such admirable housekeepers that they never had to look for a place.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
14  Sometimes I went south to visit our German neighbours and to admire their catalpa grove, or to see the big elm tree that grew up out of a deep crack in the earth and had a hawk's nest in its branches.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
15  After I had admired the arbour sufficiently, the youngsters ran away to an open place where there was a rough jungle of French pinks, and squatted down among them, crawling about and measuring with a string.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
16  Jelinek put on his long wolfskin coat, and when we admired it, he told us that he had shot and skinned the coyotes, and the young man who 'batched' with him, Jan Bouska, who had been a fur-worker in Vienna, made the coat.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV