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1  Up there the stars grew magnificently bright.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
2  They ain't dried fish, and they never grew on stalk or vine.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
3  When Pavel's health grew so bad, they decided to try farming.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
4  Lena often said she hoped I would be a travelling man when I grew up.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
5  As it grew dark, I asked whether I might light the Christmas tree before the lamp was brought.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
6  We stood panting on the edge of the ravine, looking down at the trees and bushes that grew below us.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
7  He took all the dances Lena Lingard would give him, and even grew bold enough to walk home with her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
8  As I grew older, I came to believe that it was only because she was so often thinking of things that were far away.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
9  Mrs. Steavens, who now lived on our farm, grew as fond of Antonia as we had been, and always brought us news of her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
10  Presently, against one of those banks, I saw a sort of shed, thatched with the same wine-coloured grass that grew everywhere.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
11  He grew more and more excited, and kept pointing all around his bed, as if there were things there and he wanted Mr. Shimerda to see them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
12  North of the house, inside the ploughed fire-breaks, grew a thick-set strip of box-elder trees, low and bushy, their leaves already turning yellow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
13  Mrs. Shimerda grew more calm and reasonable before our visit was over, and, while Antonia translated, put in a word now and then on her own account.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
14  The lumber was hard to work because it was full of frost, and the boards gave off a sweet smell of pine woods, as the heap of yellow shavings grew higher and higher.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
15  Soon we could see the broken, grassy clay cliffs which indicated the windings of the stream, and the glittering tops of the cottonwoods and ash trees that grew down in the ravine.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
16  And all along it, wherever it looped or ran, the sunflowers grew; some of them were as big as little trees, with great rough leaves and many branches which bore dozens of blossoms.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
17  Sometimes I went south to visit our German neighbours and to admire their catalpa grove, or to see the big elm tree that grew up out of a deep crack in the earth and had a hawk's nest in its branches.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
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