1 We never even saw any of Tony's pretty dresses.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 2 After I was dressed, I explored the long cellar next the kitchen.
3 I stood watching their white dresses glimmer smaller and smaller down the sidewalk as they went away.
4 The dead man was frozen through, 'just as stiff as a dressed turkey you hang out to freeze,' Jake said.
5 And here she was, brushed and smoothed and dressed like a town girl, smiling at us with perfect composure.
6 The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they kept shivering beneath the buffalo robes and hugging each other for warmth.
7 Now there was a place where the girls could wear their new dresses, and where one could laugh aloud without being reproved by the ensuing silence.
8 Mrs. Vanni received them at the entrance, always dressed in lavender with a great deal of black lace, her important watch-chain lying on her bosom.
9 Such disappointments only gave greater zest to the nights when we acted charades, or had a costume ball in the back parlour, with Sally always dressed like a boy.
10 Then he put on a clean shirt and clean socks, and after he was dressed he kissed her and the little one and took his gun and said he was going out to hunt rabbits.
11 I noticed, in a heavy frame, one of those depressing 'crayon enlargements' often seen in farm-house parlours, the subject being a round-eyed baby in short dresses.'
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II 12 At three o'clock one met little girls in white dresses and little boys in the round-collared shirts of the time, hurrying along the sidewalk on their way to the tent.
13 Whenever we rode over in that direction we saw her out among her cattle, bareheaded and barefooted, scantily dressed in tattered clothing, always knitting as she watched her herd.
14 If I happened to walk home with her, she told me all about the dresses she was helping to make, or about what she saw and heard when she was with Tiny Soderball at the hotel on Saturday nights.
15 While I was waiting for him to come out of his developing-room, I walked about trying to recognize the likenesses on his walls: girls in Commencement dresses, country brides and grooms holding hands, family groups of three generations.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II 16 I remember how the world looked from our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning: the low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out into ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff willow bushes.
17 If Miss d'Arnault stopped practising for a moment and went toward the window, she saw this hideous little pickaninny, dressed in an old piece of sacking, standing in the open space between the hollyhock rows, his body rocking automatically, his blind face lifted to the sun and wearing an expression of idiotic rapture.
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