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1  Pavel's own mother would not look at him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
2  Ambrosch and his mother had everything their own way.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
3  He saw his father's sledge overturned, with his mother and sisters.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
4  They had been sent to him year after year, by his old mother in Austria.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
5  She peeped out at me and smiled, but, glancing up at her mother, hid again.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
6  Antonia and Ambrosch and the mother took turns going down to pray beside him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
7  Then Jake and I played dominoes, while Otto wrote a long letter home to his mother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
8  The mother did her best, but no woman, out of her natural resources, could feed three babies.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
9  Fuchs said he 'got on fine with the kids,' and liked the mother, though she played a sorry trick on him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
10  Even the mother was always offering me things, though I knew she expected substantial presents in return.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
11  Two half-grown boys and a girl stood holding oilcloth bundles, and a little girl clung to her mother's skirts.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
12  His hazel eyes were little and shrewd, like his mother's, but more sly and suspicious; they fairly snapped at the food.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  One morning, during this interval of fine weather, Antonia and her mother rode over on one of their shaggy old horses to pay us a visit.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
14  But they were so glad to get away from their ugly cave and their mother's scolding that they begged me to go on and on, as far as Russian Peter's house.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
15  I was ten years old then; I had lost both my father and mother within a year, and my Virginia relatives were sending me out to my grandparents, who lived in Nebraska.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
16  I did not believe that my dead father and mother were watching me from up there; they would still be looking for me at the sheep-fold down by the creek, or along the white road that led to the mountain pastures.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
17  After I watched Antonia and her mother go over the hill on their miserable horse, carrying our iron pot with them, I turned to grandmother, who had taken up her darning, and said I hoped that snooping old woman wouldn't come to see us any more.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
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