1 All had borrowed money on their land.
2 The great land had never looked to me so big and free.
3 ""Now, see here, Ambrosch," says I, "there's a law in this land, don't forget that."
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 4 The cornfields were far apart in those times, with miles of wild grazing land between.
5 This cornfield, and the sorghum patch behind the barn, were the only broken land in sight.
6 There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
7 I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 8 Mental excitement was apt to send me with a rush back to my own naked land and the figures scattered upon it.
9 Perhaps Russian Peter, come from farther away than any of us, had brought from his land, too, some such belief.
10 But his father made a fuss about it and said he wouldn't give Nick any land if he married me, so he's going to marry Annie Iverson.
11 By the time they paid Krajiek for the land, and bought his horses and oxen and some old farm machinery, they had very little money left.
12 One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
13 She knew every farmer for miles about: how much land he had under cultivation, how many cattle he was feeding, what his liabilities were.
14 We were taking them some provisions, as they had come to live on a wild place where there was no garden or chicken-house, and very little broken land.
15 The old pasture land was now being broken up into wheatfields and cornfields, the red grass was disappearing, and the whole face of the country was changing.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 16 It developed that Mrs. Shimerda and Ambrosch wanted the old man buried on the southwest corner of their own land; indeed, under the very stake that marked the corner.
17 The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming.
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