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1  The room was filled with a lumbering double bed and a cheap pine bureau.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Only Guy looked sympathetic, and he stroked the pine table and said nothing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  Then in the morning we'll lie snug in our blankets and look up through the pines at an eagle.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  Her only innovation was painting the pine table a black and orange rather shocking to the Thanatopsis.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Jackson Elder's small planing-mill, with the smell of fresh pine shavings and the burr of circular saws.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  A screened porch with pillars of thin painted pine surmounted by scrolls and brackets and bumps of jigsawed wood.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  Far off whistles at night, round the river bend, plunking paddles reechoed by the pines, and a glow on black sliding waters.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  It was the entrance to a Chippewa Indian reservation, a sandy settlement among Norway pines on the shore of a huge snow-glaring lake.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  But she was unexpectedly cheerful, and her dining-room, with its thin tablecloth on a long pine table, had the decency of clean bareness.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  Uncle Miles's most ecstatic trick was to make figures not on paper but right on a new pine board, with the broadest softest pencil in the world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  It was a roving shanty, the cabin of a land schooner, with black oilcloth seats along the side, and for desk, a pine board to be let down on hinges.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  It was a tall lean shabby structure, three stories of yellow-streaked wood, the corners covered with sanded pine slabs purporting to symbolize stone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  It was a suite of two rooms: a waiting-room with straight chairs, shaky pine table, and those coverless and unknown magazines which are found only in the offices of dentists and doctors.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  She hunted along the stale-smelling corridors with their wallpaper of cerise daisies and poison-green rosettes, streaked in white spots from spilled water, their frayed red and yellow matting, and rows of pine doors painted a sickly blue.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  No aching color of the sea and pride of supercilious people, but the reality of a round-bellied nickel alarm-clock on a shelf against a fuzzy unplaned pine wall, with a stiff gray wash-rag hanging above it and a kerosene-stove standing below.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
16  It was furnished with discarded patent rockers, lopsided reed chairs, a scratched pine table, a gritty straw mat, old steel engravings of milkmaids being morally amorous under willow-trees, faded chromos of roses and fish, and a kerosene stove for warming lunches.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
17  She gazed about their bedroom, and its full dismalness crawled over her: the awkward knuckly L-shape of it; the black walnut bed with apples and spotty pears carved on the headboard; the imitation maple bureau, with pink-daubed scent-bottles and a petticoated pin-cushion on a marble slab uncomfortably like a gravestone; the plain pine washstand and the garlanded water-pitcher and bowl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
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