1 In a new country a body feels friendly to the animals.
2 As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea.
3 And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.
4 There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
5 I picked up the gun he had dropped; a queer piece from the old country, short and heavy, with a stag's head on the cock.
6 He told Antonia that in his country only rich people had cows, but here any man could have one who would take care of her.
7 His iron constitution was somewhat broken by mountain pneumonia, and he had drifted back to live in a milder country for a while.
8 The grass had been nibbled short and even, so this stretch was not shaggy and red like the surrounding country, but grey and velvety.
9 Their agreement with him was made before they left the old country, through a cousin of his, who was also a relative of Mrs. Shimerda.
10 I can remember exactly how the country looked to me as I walked beside my grandmother along the faint wagon-tracks on that early September morning.
11 As soon as the snow had packed hard, I began to drive about the country in a clumsy sleigh that Otto Fuchs made for me by fastening a wooden goods-box on bobs.
12 Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons.
13 The new country lay open before me: there were no fences in those days, and I could choose my own way over the grass uplands, trusting the pony to get me home again.
14 At night, before I went to sleep, I often found myself in a sledge drawn by three horses, dashing through a country that looked something like Nebraska and something like Virginia.
15 Grandmother had told me while she was getting supper that he was an Austrian who came to this country a young boy and had led an adventurous life in the Far West among mining-camps and cow outfits.
16 Beyond Chicago we were under the protection of a friendly passenger conductor, who knew all about the country to which we were going and gave us a great deal of advice in exchange for our confidence.
17 Fuchs told me that the sunflowers were introduced into that country by the Mormons; that at the time of the persecution, when they left Missouri and struck out into the wilderness to find a place where they could worship God in their own way, the members of the first exploring party, crossing the plains to Utah, scattered sunflower seed as they went.
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