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1  Then the poor woman broke down.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
2  You not mind my poor mamenka, Mrs. Burden.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
3  He was an inveterate gambler, though a poor loser.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
4  'That would be a poor way to get on,' said Anna sarcastically.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
5  WICK CUTTER WAS the money-lender who had fleeced poor Russian Peter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
6  Tiny had been caught in a sudden turn of weather, like poor Johnson.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
7  When we first came here, and I was little, we were too poor to buy toys.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
8  He lived in his mother's house, and she was a poor girl come in to do the work.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
9  I hadn't a word to say, and poor Jake was white as paper and trembling all over.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
10  When she got back to the Norwegian settlement, her poor feet were as hard as hoofs.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
11  Well, I can take them some victuals, anyway, and say a word of comfort to them poor little girls.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
12  Several times the poor boy fell asleep where he sat, wakened with a start, and began to pray again.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
13  The one idea that had ever got through poor Marek's thick head was that all exertion was meritorious.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
14  The poor fellow thought it great good fortune to be cared for by a woman, and a woman who spoke his own tongue.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
15  Marek was always trying to be agreeable, poor fellow, as if he had it on his mind that he must make up for his deficiencies.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
16  It took but a few moments to release the gases pent up in the poor beast, and the two women heard the rush of wind and saw the roan visibly diminish in girth.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
17  He gave thanks for our food and comfort, and prayed for the poor and destitute in great cities, where the struggle for life was harder than it was here with us.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
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