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1  Probably by that time I had crossed so many rivers that I was dull to them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
2  He never looked away from his beads, nor lifted his hands except to cross himself.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
3  Never a tired driver passed the wooden cross, I am sure, without wishing well to the sleeper.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
4  Mr. Shimerda rose, crossed himself, and quietly knelt down before the tree, his head sunk forward.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
5  I do not remember crossing the Missouri River, or anything about the long day's journey through Nebraska.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, crossing them where they were wide and shallow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
7  She remembered home as a place where there were always too many children, a cross man and work piling up around a sick woman.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
8  Mrs. Shimerda came out and placed an open prayer-book against the body, making the sign of the cross on the bandaged head with her fingers.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
9  I wanted to cross the footlights and help the slim-waisted Armand in the frilled shirt to convince her that there was still loyalty and devotion in the world.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
10  I crossed the bridge and went upstream along the wooded shore to a pleasant dressing-room I knew among the dogwood bushes, all overgrown with wild grapevines.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
11  Under his coat he wore a knitted grey vest, and, instead of a collar, a silk scarf of a dark bronze-green, carefully crossed and held together by a red coral pin.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
12  Antonia stuck her fork in the ground, and instinctively we walked toward that unploughed patch at the crossing of the roads as the fittest place to talk to each other.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV
13  When Otto left Austria to come to America, he was asked by one of his relatives to look after a woman who was crossing on the same boat, to join her husband in Chicago.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
14  Grandfather had explained to Ambrosch that some day, when the country was put under fence and the roads were confined to section lines, two roads would cross exactly on that corner.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
15  The road from the post-office came directly by our door, crossed the farmyard, and curved round this little pond, beyond which it began to climb the gentle swell of unbroken prairie to the west.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
16  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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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
17  Years afterward, when the open-grazing days were over, and the red grass had been ploughed under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed section-lines, Mr. Shimerda's grave was still there, with a sagging wire fence around it, and an unpainted wooden cross.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
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