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1  I'd feel safer, knowing you were under my own roof.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
2  I seen bunches of hair and stuff sticking to the poles and straw along the roof.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
3  The roof was so steep that the eaves were not much above the forest of tall hollyhocks, now brown and in seed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  The hedges were so tall that we could see nothing but the blue sky above them, neither the barn roof nor the windmill.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
5  Misfortune seemed to settle like an evil bird on the roof of the log house, and to flap its wings there, warning human beings away.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
6  Before I knew Lena, I thought of her as something wild, that always lived on the prairie, because I had never seen her under a roof.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
7  The roofs, that looked so far away across the green tree-tops, now stare you in the face, and they are so much uglier than when their angles were softened by vines and shrubs.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
8  The men went down to the barn immediately after supper, and when the dishes were washed, Antonia and I climbed up on the slanting roof of the chicken-house to watch the clouds.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
9  When the smoky clouds hung low in the west and the red sun went down behind them, leaving a pink flush on the snowy roofs and the blue drifts, then the wind sprang up afresh, with a kind of bitter song, as if it said: 'This is reality, whether you like it or not.'
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI