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1  I've got cruel parents, or I'd set you up.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
2  The winter was coming on again, more menacing and cruel than ever.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
3  It was a bitter and cruel experience, and it plunged them into an agony of despair.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  This was cruel, but they meant no harm by it, and he took it with a good-natured grin.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
5  It was cruel iron-hard; and hour after hour they would cringe in its grasp, alone, alone.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  That is the only word to describe it; it was so cruel, and so utterly not to be foreseen.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
7  He told them cruel stories of people who had been done to death in this "buying a home" swindle.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
8  There came cruel, cold, and biting winds, and blizzards of snow, all testing relentlessly for failing muscles and impoverished blood.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
9  Yet all this was not really as cruel as it sounds, for, sick as he was, little Antanas was the least unfortunate member of that family.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
10  On the way home, however, the shivering was apt to come on him again; and so he would have to stop once or twice to warm up against the cruel cold.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
11  This was simple and clear, and yet, with cruel inconsistency, whenever he escaped from this nightmare it was to suffer and cry out at the vision of Ona starving.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
12  Toward morning the place fell silent, and he got up and began to pace his cell; and then within the soul of him there rose up a fiend, red-eyed and cruel, and tore out the strings of his heart.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
13  It was hours before the excitement could be calmed; and all through that cruel night Jurgis would wake up now and then and hear Ona and her stepmother in the next room, sobbing softly to themselves.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
14  He had not stopped for his-overcoat when he set out to "do up" Connor, and so his rides in the patrol wagons had been cruel experiences; his clothing was old and worn thin, and it never had been very warm.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
15  Such were the cruel terms upon which their life was possible, that they might never have nor expect a single instant's respite from worry, a single instant in which they were not haunted by the thought of money.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
16  This was more cruel yet for Ona, who ought to have stayed home and nursed him, the doctor said, for her own health as well as the baby's; but Ona had to go to work, and leave him for Teta Elzbieta to feed upon the pale blue poison that was called milk at the corner grocery.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
17  A very few days of practical experience in this land of high wages had been sufficient to make clear to them the cruel fact that it was also a land of high prices, and that in it the poor man was almost as poor as in any other corner of the earth; and so there vanished in a night all the wonderful dreams of wealth that had been haunting Jurgis.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
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