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1  A little girl trailed along behind them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
2  A plump, fair-skinned girl was standing in the doorway.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
3  Grandmother had said, 'Heavy field work'll spoil that girl.'
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
4  She put her arms round Yulka and held the little girl close to her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
5  Pavel knocked him over the side of the sledge and threw the girl after him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
6  He sprang up as if he meant to jump, but the girl shrieked and held him back.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
7  'Maybe I be the kind of girl you like better; now I come to town,' she suggested hopefully.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
8  The door stood open, and a woman and a girl of fourteen ran out and looked up at us hopefully.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
9  A little girl who lived on the Black Hawk road was bitten on the ankle and had been sick all summer.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
10  She said she wanted to see 'what the girl came from' and to have a clear understanding with her mother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
11  They had liked Antonia from their first glimpse of her; felt they knew exactly what kind of girl she was.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
12  And here she was, brushed and smoothed and dressed like a town girl, smiling at us with perfect composure.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
13  Two half-grown boys and a girl stood holding oilcloth bundles, and a little girl clung to her mother's skirts.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
14  'The girl will be happy here, and she'll forget those things,' said Mrs. Harling confidently, as we rose to take our leave.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
15  When she first came to this country, Frances, and had that genteel old man to watch over her, she was as pretty a girl as ever I saw.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
16  I knew, too, that Ambrosch put upon her some chores a girl ought not to do, and that the farm-hands around the country joked in a nasty way about it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
17  She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
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