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1  I'd be ten times as sweet to make love to as that dreamy baby.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  She touched the thought, "It would be sweet to have a baby of my own."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  She was happily domestic when Kennicott sat by her on the floor, to watch baby make faces.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  Then the baby was born, without unusual difficulty: a boy with straight back and strong legs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  In front of it a sagging woman with tight-drawn hair, and a baby bedraggled, smeary, glorious-eyed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  She brings out a graham cracker which she feeds to a baby lying flat on a seat and wailing hopelessly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  The presence of the baby had made her take Gopher Prairie and the brown house seriously, as natural places of residence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  For that autumn she knew that a baby was coming, that at last life promised to be interesting in the peril of the great change.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
9  In courtship days Kennicott had shown her a photograph of Nels Erdstrom's baby and log cabin, but she had never seen the Erdstroms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  Then, for three years which passed like one curt paragraph, she ceased to find anything interesting save the Bjornstams and her baby.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  They appeared unannounced, before the baby was born, took their welcome for granted, and immediately began to complain of the fact that their room faced north.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  Carol herself had the baby, a larger house to care for, all the telephone calls for Kennicott when he was away; and she read everything, while Vida was satisfied with newspaper headlines.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  She felt that willy-nilly she was being initiated into the assembly of housekeepers; with the baby for hostage, she would never escape; presently she would be drinking coffee and rocking and talking about diapers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  She admitted that Carol seemed to have affection and immaculate care for the baby, but she began to identify herself now with Kennicott, and in this phase to feel that she had endured quite too much from Carol's instability.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  She marveled at the perfection of the miniature hands as noisily as did Kennicott, she was overwhelmed by the trust with which the baby turned to her; passion for him grew with each unpoetic irritating thing she had to do for him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
16  Against the protest of Kennicott and Vida she mortgaged the association by sending to Minneapolis for a baby spotlight, a strip light, a dimming device, and blue and amber bulbs; and with the gloating rapture of a born painter first turned loose among colors, she spent absorbed evenings in grouping, dimming-painting with lights.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
17  She alternately detested herself for not appreciating the kindly women, and detested them for their advice: lugubrious hints as to how much she would suffer in labor, details of baby-hygiene based on long experience and total misunderstanding, superstitious cautions about the things she must eat and read and look at in prenatal care for the baby's soul, and always a pest of simpering baby-talk.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
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