1 The men could not go farther than the barns and corral.
2 He takes a chicken once in a while, but I won't let the men harm him.
3 Our lives centred around warmth and food and the return of the men at nightfall.
4 The screams of the horses were more terrible to hear than the cries of the men and women.
5 We stumbled down from the train to a wooden siding, where men were running about with lanterns.
6 Yet they were the sort of men who never get on, somehow, or do anything but work hard for a dollar or two a day.
7 Of all the strange, uprooted people among the first settlers, those two men were the strangest and the most aloof.
8 He always seemed pleased when he met people on the road, smiled and took off his cap to everyone, men as well as women.
9 I can still see those two men sitting on the bench; Otto's close-clipped head and Jake's shaggy hair slicked flat in front by a wet comb.
10 It was dug out under the wing of the house, was plastered and cemented, with a stairway and an outside door by which the men came and went.
11 When Pavel and Peter were young men, living at home in Russia, they were asked to be groomsmen for a friend who was to marry the belle of another village.
12 After that Dude and I went twice a week to the post-office, six miles east of us, and I saved the men a good deal of time by riding on errands to our neighbours.
13 They went away to strange towns, but when people learned where they came from, they were always asked if they knew the two men who had fed the bride to the wolves.
14 I explained to Antonia how this meant that he was twenty-four years old, that he must have been there when white men first came, left on from buffalo and Indian times.
15 But after the men came in from the fields, and we were all seated at the supper table, then she asked Jake about the old place and about our friends and neighbours there.
16 That afternoon she was telling me how highly esteemed our friend the badger was in her part of the world, and how men kept a special kind of dog, with very short legs, to hunt him.
17 The men were out in the fields all day, husking corn, and when they came in at noon, with long caps pulled down over their ears and their feet in red-lined overshoes, I used to think they were like Arctic explorers.
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