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1  You've given me money both freely and amiably.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  Well, hereafter I'll refuse your money, as a gift.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  She had used most of the money from her father's estate.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  She wanted ten pounds of sugar in a hurry, but she had no money.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  I now humbly beg you to give me the money with which to buy meals for you to eat.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  When they were already old they had lost the money, which they had invested in an elevator.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  He pressed fifty dollars upon her, and after that he remembered to give her money regularly.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  He had saved money, had quit Elder's planing-mill and started a dairy on a vacant lot near his shack.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
9  It was a nuisance to have to run down the street after him because she had forgotten to ask him for money at breakfast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  She became self-conscious; occasionally she was indignant that she should always have to petition him for the money with which to buy his food.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  She was disappointed by his devotion to making money, but she was sure that he did not lie to patients, and that he did keep up with the medical magazines.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  Luke Dawson, lender of money on mortgages, owner of Northern cut-over land, was a hesitant man in unpressed soft gray clothes, with bulging eyes in a milky face.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  She became secretary to a New York millionaire and social counselor to his wife; and after a well-conceived speech on the discomfort of having money, she married his son.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
14  I can't shop around, can't buy in large quantities, have to stick to stores where I have a charge account, good deal of the time, can't plan because I don't know how much money I can depend on.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  The Health and Improvement Committee of the Thanatopsis asked her to take part in the anti-fly campaign, and she toiled about town persuading householders to use the fly-traps furnished by the club, or giving out money prizes to fly-swatting children.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
16  She had been embarrassed by Kennicott's frankness, but she agreed with him that in the insane condition of civilization, which made the rearing of citizens more costly and perilous than any other crime, it was inadvisable to have children till he had made more money.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
17  Then there was the mysterious woman with the dyed hair and penciled eyebrows, who wore tight English dresses, like basques, who smelled of stale musk, who flirted with the men and got them to advance money for her expenses in a lawsuit, who laughed at Vida's reading at a school-entertainment, and went off owing a hotel-bill and the three hundred dollars she had borrowed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
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