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1  This was news to the girl from the Cities.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  If she was the naive girl, Guy Pollock was the clumsy boy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  She had inherited the rest from generations of girl students.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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4  Carol heard him confiding to Bea, "You're a darn nice Swede girl."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  If a girl really kissed him, he'd creep out of his den and be human.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  She stopped, walked on sedately, changed from the girl Carol into Mrs. Dr. Kennicott.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  A girl on a hilltop; credulous, plastic, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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8  She had not minded; she would loosen the matrimonial tension and be a fanciful girl for a time.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  Sam Clark was no more loyal than girl librarians she knew in St. Paul, the people she had met in Chicago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Like a very small, very lonely girl she trudged up-stairs, slow step by step, her feet dragging, her hand on the rail.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  In it were an obviously prosperous man and a black-haired, fine-skinned girl whose pumps rested on an immaculate horsehide bag.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
12  ON a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the cornflower blue of Northern sky.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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13  Vell, dis iss a fine day, she did not notice the dustiness of the shelves nor the stupidity of the girl clerk; and she did not remember the mute colloquy with him on her first view of Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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14  The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot; and a rebellious girl is the spirit of that bewildered empire called the American Middlewest.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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15  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
16  But she was sickened by glimpses of the gang of boys from fourteen to twenty who loafed before Dyer's Drug Store, smoking cigarettes, displaying "fancy" shoes and purple ties and coats of diamond-shaped buttons, whistling the Hoochi-Koochi and catcalling, "Oh, you baby-doll" at every passing girl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
17  Though they had all been certain that they longed for the privilege of attending committee meetings and rehearsals, the dramatic association as definitely formed consisted only of Kennicott, Carol, Guy Pollock, Vida Sherwin, Ella Stowbody, the Harry Haydocks, the Dave Dyers, Raymie Wutherspoon, Dr. Terry Gould, and four new candidates: flirtatious Rita Simons, Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Dillon and Myrtle Cass, an uncomely but intense girl of nineteen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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