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1  We were examining a big hole with two entrances.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
2  The great land had never looked to me so big and free.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
3  My tatinek say when you are big boy, he give you his gun.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
4  I asked her if she meant the two Russians who lived up by the big dog-town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
5  He's about as big as a big 'possum, and his face is striped, black and white.'
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
6  You is just like big mans; you wait for him lift his head and then you go for him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
7  They were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
8  The big yellow and brown ones won't hurt you; they're bull-snakes and help to keep the gophers down.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
9  It was belong to a great man, very rich, like what you not got here; many fields, many forests, many big house.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
10  All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  We clambered up to the front seat and jolted off past the little pond and along the road that climbed to the big cornfield.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
12  As we rode up the draw, we skirted a big melon patch, and a garden where squashes and yellow cucumbers lay about on the sod.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
13  The sun shone into my bath-water through the west half-window, and a big Maltese cat came up and rubbed himself against the tub, watching me curiously.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
14  Sometimes I rode north to the big prairie-dog town to watch the brown earth-owls fly home in the late afternoon and go down to their nests underground with the dogs.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
15  He must once have been a very strong man, but now his great frame, with big, knotty joints, had a wasted look, and the skin was drawn tight over his high cheekbones.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
16  And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; some of them were as big as little trees, with great rough leaves and many branches which bore dozens of blossoms.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
17  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
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