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1  At the first call of the music, she became irresponsible.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: X
2  My papa, he cry for leave his old friends what make music with him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
3  She taught me to dance against and around the hard-and-fast beat of the music.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
4  They loved children and animals and music, and rough play and digging in the earth.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
5  The talk was all about good and bad hotels, actors and actresses and musical prodigies.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
6  He liked theatres and lighted streets and music and a game of dominoes after the day's work was over.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
7  She told Antonia she had better go to see Tiny that Saturday evening, as there would certainly be music at the Boys' Home.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
8  Some days he take his violin out of his box and make with his fingers on the strings, like this, but never he make the music.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
9  At the piano, he swayed in time to the music, and when he was not playing, his body kept up this motion, like an empty mill grinding on.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
10  The orchestra kept sawing away at the 'Traviata' music, so joyous and sad, so thin and far-away, so clap-trap and yet so heart-breaking.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
11  When I stole into the parlour, Anson Kirkpatrick, Marshall Field's man, was at the piano, playing airs from a musical comedy then running in Chicago.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
12  The music seemed to put her into a soft, waking dream, and her violet-coloured eyes looked sleepily and confidingly at one from under her long lashes.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
13  There was a note on the programme, saying that the 'incidental music' would be from the opera 'Traviata,' which was made from the same story as the play.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
14  At a word from Kirkpatrick, d'Arnault spread himself out over the piano, and began to draw the dance music out of it, while the perspiration shone on his short wool and on his uplifted face.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
15  I did not know all the men who were sitting about, but I recognized a furniture salesman from Kansas City, a drug man, and Willy O'Reilly, who travelled for a jewellery house and sold musical instruments.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
16  I can see her at this moment: her short, square person planted firmly on the stool, her little fat hands moving quickly and neatly over the keys, her eyes fixed on the music with intelligent concentration.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
17  After Tiny had helped the cook wash the dishes, she and Lena sat on the other side of the double doors between the parlour and the dining-room, listening to the music and giggling at the jokes and stories.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
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