ELEVATION in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - elevation in Main Street
1  I'll wait for you by the elevator.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  He could not do his work as buyer at the elevator.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
3  The elevator company, Ezra Stowbody president, let him go.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  She unconsciously waited for the bellboy to precede her into the elevator.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  In twenty minutes the party was again elevated to the decorum of a prayer-meeting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  When they were already old they had lost the money, which they had invested in an elevator.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  When she was in charge of the magazine room the readers did not ask for suggestions about elevated essays.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  I Hard, when they were shown through the gray stone hulks and new cement elevators of the largest flour-mills in the world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  The elevator, with its cupola on the ridge of a shingled roof, resembled a broad-shouldered man with a small, vicious, pointed head.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Now the train was passing the elevator, the grim storage-tanks for oil, a creamery, a lumber-yard, a stock-yard muddy and trampled and stinking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Champ Perry the pioneer, wheat-buyer at the elevator, stopped her in the post-office, held her hand in his withered paws, peered at her with faded eyes, and chuckled, "You are so fresh and blooming, my dear."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
12  But as she followed Kennicott to the elevator the coat-check girl, a confident young woman, with cheeks powdered like lime, and a blouse low and thin and furiously crimson, inspected her, and under that supercilious glance Carol was shy again.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  It was a new god; a monster of steel limbs, oak ribs, flesh of gravel, and a stupendous hunger for freight; a deity created by man that he might keep himself respectful to Property, as elsewhere he had elevated and served as tribal gods the mines, cotton-mills, motor-factories, colleges, army.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX