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1  And it's Erik who gives me the courage.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  But all the courageous intelligent people are fighting him.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  Even her flight had been but the temporary courage of panic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  Her days were swift, and she knew that in her folly of running away she had found the courage to be wise.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  His drab courageous wife drove the wagon, and she helped Kennicott support him as he hobbled up the steps, into the house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  The thing she gained in Washington was not information about office-systems and labor unions but renewed courage, that amiable contempt called poise.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
7  He was, in fact, a museum specimen of what a small town, a well-disciplined public school, a tradition of hearty humor, and a pious mother could produce from the material of a courageous and ingenious mind.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  Large experiments in politics and in co-operative distribution, ventures requiring knowledge, courage, and imagination, do originate in the West and Middlewest, but they are not of the towns, they are of the farmers.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
9  From the vestibule she waved to them, but she clung a second to the sleeve of the brakeman who helped her down before she had the courage to dive into the cataract of hand-shaking people, people whom she could not tell apart.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
10  They reached Nels Erdstrom's at four, and with a throb she recognized the courageous venture which had lured her to Gopher Prairie: the cleared fields, furrows among stumps, a log cabin chinked with mud and roofed with dry hay.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  But it is not satisfied until the entire world also admits that the end and joyous purpose of living is to ride in flivvers, to make advertising-pictures of dollar watches, and in the twilight to sit talking not of love and courage but of the convenience of safety razors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII