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1  My husband's not at home, sir.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
2  Her husband was born in Minnesota.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
3  Well, it's mainly because I don't want a husband.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
4  Her husband stood at the desk and welcomed incoming travellers.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
5  Her husband knew very little about farming and often grew discouraged.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
6  She and her husband had started home from Omaha together the morning before.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
7  She taught the little children herself, and her husband, the harpist, taught the older ones.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
8  Frances Harling was married now, and she and her husband managed the Harling interests in Black Hawk.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
9  She saw at once that her husband had played this trick in order to get back to Black Hawk without her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
10  A new law was passed in the state, securing the surviving wife a third of her husband's estate under all conditions.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
11  The chief of these was the question of inheritance: Mrs. Cutter told her husband it was plainly his fault they had no children.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
12  But her husband's crazy about his farm and about having everything just right, and they almost never get away except on Sundays.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
13  She told me how she and her husband had come out to this new country when the farm-land was cheap and could be had on easy payments.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
14  Mrs. Cutter painted china so assiduously that even her wash-bowls and pitchers, and her husband's shaving-mug, were covered with violets and lilies.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
15  The husband, in Chicago, was working in a furniture factory for modest wages, and when he met his family at the station he was rather crushed by the size of it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
16  When Otto left Austria to come to America, he was asked by one of his relatives to look after a woman who was crossing on the same boat, to join her husband in Chicago.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
17  After the concert was over, Antonia brought out a big boxful of photographs: she and Anton in their wedding clothes, holding hands; her brother Ambrosch and his very fat wife, who had a farm of her own, and who bossed her husband, I was delighted to hear; the three Bohemian Marys and their large families.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
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