1 I couldn't bear to see her cry.
2 He couldn't refuse anything to a girl.
3 I know it was silly, but I couldn't help it.
4 I knew she couldn't talk free before her mother.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 5 I couldn't see any town, or even distant lights; we were surrounded by utter darkness.
6 But I couldn't feel so tired that I wouldn't fret about these trees when there was a dry time.
7 He was as thick as my leg, and looked as if millstones couldn't crush the disgusting vitality out of him.
8 Even if she had begun by running a decent place, she couldn't keep it up; all sailors' boarding-houses were alike.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I 9 I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you.
10 She raced all over town on one roller skate, often cheated at 'keeps,' but was such a quick shot one couldn't catch her at it.
11 There's no good reason why Mrs. Shimerda couldn't have got hens from her neighbours last fall and had a hen-house going by now.
12 This angered his mother more than anything else he could have done; she was so ashamed of his ugliness that she couldn't bear to have white folks see him.
13 If the room had suddenly been flooded with electric light, I couldn't have seen more clearly the detestable bearded countenance that I knew was bending over me.
14 I couldn't help thinking that the years when Lena literally hadn't enough clothes to cover herself might have something to do with her untiring interest in dressing the human figure.
15 Her feet seemed to drag as she moved about the house, and I got up from the table where I was studying and went to her, asking if she didn't feel well, and if I couldn't help her with her work.
16 She told me she couldn't remember a time when she was so little that she wasn't lugging a heavy baby about, helping to wash for babies, trying to keep their little chapped hands and faces clean.
17 In the morning, when I was fighting my way to school against the wind, I couldn't see anything but the road in front of me; but in the late afternoon, when I was coming home, the town looked bleak and desolate to me.
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