1 Probably by that time I had crossed so many rivers that I was dull to them.
2 He never looked away from his beads, nor lifted his hands except to cross himself.
3 Never a tired driver passed the wooden cross, I am sure, without wishing well to the sleeper.
4 Mr. Shimerda rose, crossed himself, and quietly knelt down before the tree, his head sunk forward.
5 I do not remember crossing the Missouri River, or anything about the long day's journey through Nebraska.
6 The road ran about like a wild thing, avoiding the deep draws, crossing them where they were wide and shallow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight 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.
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.
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.
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.
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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