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1  Well, Baptists hardly ever christen kids.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  I don't think much of this business of leaving kids around.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  I've always loved you more than anything else in the world, you and the kid.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
4  The gutter comedy turned into high tragedy, with Nemesis in black kid gloves.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  I've been rushing from picture to picture, like a kid let loose in an art gallery for the first time.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  I'm not trying to organize Browning Clubs, and sit in clean white kids yearning up at lecturers with ribbony eyeglasses.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Carol was her attendant, and as the wedding was at the Episcopal Church, all the women wore new kid slippers and long white kid gloves, and looked refined.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  She patted her black kid gloves, picked at a thread of her faded brown skirt, and sighed, "He's a good boy, and awful affectionate if you treat him right."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  I tell you, Carrie Kennicott's a smart woman, and these smart educated women all get funny ideas, but they get over 'em after they've had three or four kids.'
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
10  And here, except when I have the kids in gymnasium class, or when I'm chaperoning the basket-ball team on a trip out-of-town, I won't dare to move above a whisper.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  They let on that if they'd waited two hours more the kid would have developed peritonitis, and God knows what all; and then they collected a nice fat hundred and fifty dollars.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV