1 I'd always be miserable in a city.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV 2 He was still, as Antonia said, a city man.
3 She asked me whether I had learned to like big cities.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV 4 Anton, he was a city man, and he used to get discouraged.
5 He was a widower, and found very little congenial companionship in this casual Western city.
6 I'm a country girl," she said, "and I doubt if I'll be able to manage so well for him in a city.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 7 The Vannis kept exemplary order, and closed every evening at the hour suggested by the city council.
8 They had a gay life of it; nothing to do but ride about on trains all day and go to theatres when they were in big cities.
9 Father Kelly, the priest, had found the name of the Spanish maker on the sword and an abbreviation that stood for the city of Cordova.
10 He seemed to us an experienced and worldly man who had been almost everywhere; in his conversation he threw out lightly the names of distant states and cities.
11 He gave thanks for our food and comfort, and prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.
12 Half the sky was chequered with black thunderheads, but all the west was luminous and clear: in the lightning flashes it looked like deep blue water, with the sheen of moonlight on it; and the mottled part of the sky was like marble pavement, like the quay of some splendid seacoast city, doomed to destruction.