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1  Cutter was one of the 'fast set' of Black Hawk business men.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
2  When business fell off in one place, they moved on to another.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
3  Her interest in these people was more than a business interest.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
4  It was Mrs. Gardener who ran the business and looked after everything.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
5  She told me her business was going well, and she had saved a little money.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
6  Because of her unusual business ability, he was stern and exacting with her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
7  One of them he had taken to Omaha and established in the business for which he had fitted her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
8  During the wait, Cutter left her at the depot and went to the Waymore bank to attend to some business.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
9  Mrs. Thomas says she thinks I can move to some other town pretty soon, and go into business for myself.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
10  He used to take her away to their room in the west ell, and talk over his business with her all evening.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
11  He was a grain merchant and cattle-buyer, and was generally considered the most enterprising business man in our county.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
12  If he went to the hotel to see a travelling man on business, there was Tiny, arching her shoulders at him like a kitten.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
13  When he came to our house on business, he quoted 'Poor Richard's Almanack' to me, and told me he was delighted to find a town boy who could milk a cow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
14  When Frances drove out into the country on business, she would go miles out of her way to call on some of the old people, or to see the women who seldom got to town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
15  He was a strapping young fellow in the early twenties then, handsome, warm-hearted, and full of life, and he came to us like a miracle in the midst of that grim business.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
16  With Charley, who was not interested in business, but was already preparing for Annapolis, Mr. Harling was very indulgent; bought him guns and tools and electric batteries, and never asked what he did with them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
17  Mrs. Harling gave us a lively account of Ambrosch's behaviour throughout the interview; how he kept jumping up and putting on his cap as if he were through with the whole business, and how his mother tweaked his coat-tail and prompted him in Bohemian.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
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