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1  They made a gold ribbon across the prairie.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
2  There was a shimmer of gold on the brown river.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
3  The blond cornfields were red gold, the haystacks turned rosy and threw long shadows.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
4  Miners and sailors came back from the North with wonderful stories and pouches of gold.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
5  We were so deep in the grass that we could see nothing but the blue sky over us and the gold tree in front of us.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
6  This is what actually happened to Tiny: While she was running her lodging-house in Seattle, gold was discovered in Alaska.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
7  Miners came in on snowshoes from their placer claims twenty miles away to buy fresh bread from her, and paid for it in gold.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
8  The tree-tops that had been gold all the autumn were dwarfed and twisted, as if they would never have any life in them again.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
9  The cornfields got back a little of their colour under the dazzling light, and stood the palest possible gold in the sun and snow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  On the edge of the prairie, where the sun had gone down, the sky was turquoise blue, like a lake, with gold light throbbing in it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
11  Some of the cottonwoods had already turned, and the yellow leaves and shining white bark made them look like the gold and silver trees in fairy tales.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
12  When we reached the level and could see the gold tree-tops, I pointed toward them, and Antonia laughed and squeezed my hand as if to tell me how glad she was I had come.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  There were chandeliers hung from the ceiling, I remember, many servants in livery, gaming-tables where the men played with piles of gold, and a staircase down which the guests made their entrance.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
14  They reached Circle City on the very day when some Siwash Indians came into the settlement with the report that there had been a rich gold strike farther up the river, on a certain Klondike Creek.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
15  Before he left us, he showed us his gold watch which struck the hours, and a topaz ring, given him by some Russian nobleman who delighted in Negro melodies, and had heard d'Arnault play in New Orleans.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
16  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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
17  His girls never looked so pretty at the dances as they did standing by the ironing-board, or over the tubs, washing the fine pieces, their white arms and throats bare, their cheeks bright as the brightest wild roses, their gold hair moist with the steam or the heat and curling in little damp spirals about their ears.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
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