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1  There everything was in shocking disorder.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
2  Now everything was plastered with mortgages.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
3  Ambrosch and his mother had everything their own way.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
4  Antonia looked eagerly about the house and admired everything.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
5  It was Mrs. Gardener who ran the business and looked after everything.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
6  Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
7  Antonia had opinions about everything, and she was soon able to make them known.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
8  Big white flakes were whirling over everything and disappearing in the red grass.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
9  There never were such people as the Shimerdas for wanting to give away everything they had.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
10  It must have been a trial for our mothers,' said Lena, 'coming out here and having to do everything different.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
11  Fuchs told me everything I wanted to know: how he had lost his ear in a Wyoming blizzard when he was a stage-driver, and how to throw a lasso.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
12  All those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
13  Gaston Cleric introduced me to the world of ideas; when one first enters that world everything else fades for a time, and all that went before is as if it had not been.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
14  Her voice was high and rather shrill, and she often spoke with an anxious inflection, for she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
15  The thunder was loud and metallic, like the rattle of sheet iron, and the lightning broke in great zigzags across the heavens, making everything stand out and come close to us for a moment.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
16  Jake bought everything the newsboys offered him: candy, oranges, brass collar buttons, a watch-charm, and for me a 'Life of Jesse James,' which I remember as one of the most satisfactory books I have ever read.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
17  That afternoon three cheerful-looking Italians strolled about Black Hawk, looking at everything, and with them was a dark, stout woman who wore a long gold watch-chain about her neck and carried a black lace parasol.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
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