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1  Carol did inspire a successful skating-party in mid-November.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  She saw it the common home and inspiration not only of the town but of the country about.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  For all her enthusiasms, for all the fondness and the "crushes" which she inspired, Carol's acquaintances were shy of her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  The final item was a man who neither lectured, inspired, nor entertained; a plain little man with his hands in his pockets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  She wasn't altogether pleased, the week after, when Erik was independent and, without asking for her inspiration, planned the tennis tournament.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  She found no inspiration but she did find a dependable kindness in Mrs. Westlake, and at last she yielded to the old woman's receptivity and had relief in sobbing the story of Bea.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  It did not appear that the Great World needed her inspiration, but she felt that her letters, her contact with the anxieties of men and women all over the country, were a part of vast affairs, not confined to Main Street and a kitchen but linked with Paris, Bangkok, Madrid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII