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1  Other bachelor homesteaders used canned milk, to save trouble.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
2  Jimmy, here, is about as able to take over a homestead as they are.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
3  Handsome Anton Jelinek, who had rented his homestead and come to town, was the proprietor.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
4  Determined to help in the struggle to clear the homestead from debt, they had no alternative but to go into service.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
5  The Bohemian family, grandmother told me as we drove along, had bought the homestead of a fellow countryman, Peter Krajiek, and had paid him more than it was worth.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
6  Accordingly our homestead was rented to 'that good woman, the Widow Steavens,' and her bachelor brother, and we bought Preacher White's house, at the north end of Black Hawk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
7  Fuchs brought home with him a stranger, a young Bohemian who had taken a homestead near Black Hawk, and who came on his only horse to help his fellow countrymen in their trouble.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV