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1  They get it ground at the mill, and it makes nice bread.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
2  I remember how horrified we were at the sour, ashy-grey bread she gave her family to eat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
3  The next time she made bread, she scraped this sour stuff down into the fresh dough to serve as yeast.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
4  Jelinek kept rye bread on hand and smoked fish and strong imported cheeses to please the foreign palate.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
5  I tied my pony and went into the kitchen where Mrs. Shimerda was baking bread, chewing poppy seeds as she worked.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
6  After the mush we had fresh bread and sorghum molasses, and coffee with the cake that had been kept warm in the feathers.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
7  Miners came in on snowshoes from their placer claims twenty miles away to buy fresh bread from her, and paid for it in gold.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
8  They laughed until a glance from Norwegian Anna checked them; the high-school principal had just come into the front part of the shop to buy bread for supper.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
9  I remember one funny story about himself that made grandmother, who was working her bread on the bread-board, laugh until she wiped her eyes with her bare arm, her hands being floury.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  I was glad, when I came home from school at noon, to see a farm-wagon standing in the back yard, and I was always ready to run downtown to get beefsteak or baker's bread for unexpected company.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
11  Fuchs brought up a sack of potatoes and a piece of cured pork from the cellar, and grandmother packed some loaves of Saturday's bread, a jar of butter, and several pumpkin pies in the straw of the wagon-box.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III