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1  The guns banged, and a duck fluttered.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
2  Three ducks were swooping down in a swift line.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
3  Wish I'd had more time to go after the ducks this fall.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Carol joined them; she ducked shrieking small boys, and helped babies construct sand-basins for unfortunate minnows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Kennicott brought down a fat red squirrel and at dusk he had a dramatic shot at a flight of ducks whirling down from the upper air, skimming the lake, instantly vanishing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
6  But she exclaimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
7  They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chickens; the new breakings yielded the turnip-like rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  Twice a week, at least, she drove into the country with Kennicott, to hunt ducks in lakes enameled with sunset, or to call on patients who looked up to her as the squire's lady and thanked her for toys and magazines.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V