1 He was off somewhere helping to dig a well.
2 The neighbours had helped them to build it in March.
3 I taught her hemstitching, and I helped her to cut and fit.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 4 On Sundays she helped her mother make garden or sewed all day.
5 As she helped me to my room, I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror.
6 She helped Antonia get ready to be married, and she was there when Antonia came back.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II 7 The girls I knew were always helping to pay for ploughs and reapers, brood-sows, or steers to fatten.
8 Jake helped grandmother to the ground, saying he would bring the provisions after he had blanketed his horses.
9 She seemed to think that my elders withheld helpful information, and that from me she might get valuable secrets.
10 After dinner, when she was helping to wash the dishes, she said, tossing her head: 'You got many things for cook.'
11 We were out all day in the thin sunshine, helping Mrs. Harling and Tony break the ground and plant the garden, dig around the orchard trees, tie up vines and clip the hedges.
12 Grandmother told him she was sure the Lord had remembered these things to his credit, and had helped him out of many a scrape when he didn't realize that he was being protected by Providence.
13 If I happened to walk home with her, she told me all about the dresses she was helping to make, or about what she saw and heard when she was with Tiny Soderball at the hotel on Saturday nights.
14 She told me she couldn't remember a time when she was so little that she wasn't lugging a heavy baby about, helping to wash for babies, trying to keep their little chapped hands and faces clean.
15 After Tiny had helped the cook wash the dishes, she and Lena sat on the other side of the double doors between the parlour and the dining-room, listening to the music and giggling at the jokes and stories.
16 Not long after Mary came back from the asylum, I heard a young Dane, who was helping us to thresh, tell Jake and Otto that Chris Lingard's oldest girl had put Ole Benson out of his head, until he had no more sense than his crazy wife.
17 The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.
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