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1  Her white wool gloves lay in her lap.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
2  Her hand disappeared in his blackened leather glove.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  His fingertip crept through the opening of her glove and smoothed her palm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  The gutter comedy turned into high tragedy, with Nemesis in black kid gloves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  She realized that she still carried the damp glove she had stripped off for Erik.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  She snatched her hand away, stripped off her glove, tucked her hand back into his.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  The wet snow drenched their gloves; the water underfoot splashed their itching ankles.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  Carol was her attendant, and as the wedding was at the Episcopal Church, all the women wore new kid slippers and long white kid gloves, and looked refined.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  She patted her black kid gloves, picked at a thread of her faded brown skirt, and sighed, "He's a good boy, and awful affectionate if you treat him right."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
10  He filled the grease-cups, varnished a fender, removed from beneath the back seat the debris of gloves, copper washers, crumpled maps, dust, and greasy rags.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  After breakfast Carol bustled to a hair-dresser's, bought gloves and a blouse, and importantly met Kennicott in front of an optician's, in accordance with plans laid down, revised, and verified.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
12  She was reflecting that he was a rustic, that she hated him, that she had been insane to marry him, that she had married him only because she was tired of work, that she must get her long gloves cleaned, that she would never do anything more for him, and that she mustn't forget his hominy for breakfast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV