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1  In a moment we were running up the steep drawside together, Yulka trotting after us.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
2  And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
3  Almost every day she came running across the prairie to have her reading lesson with me.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
4  The river was running strong for midsummer; heavy rains to the west of us had kept it full.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
5  We stumbled down from the train to a wooden siding, where men were running about with lanterns.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  Antonia and Yulka came running out, wearing little rabbit-skin hats their father had made for them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
7  She was so gay and responsive that one did not mind her heavy, running step, or her clattery way with pans.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
8  Those light, swift fires, running about the country, seemed a part of the same kindling that was in the air.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
9  While the two women were running the place alone, one of the new horses got colic and gave them a terrible fright.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
10  Even if she had begun by running a decent place, she couldn't keep it up; all sailors' boarding-houses were alike.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
11  This is what actually happened to Tiny: While she was running her lodging-house in Seattle, gold was discovered in Alaska.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
12  Suddenly I found myself running across the north end of Black Hawk in my night-shirt, just as one sometimes finds one's self behaving in bad dreams.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
13  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
14  I was smoking in the orchard, and as I went out to meet them, Antonia came running down from the house and hugged the two men as if they had been away for months.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
15  He reported that the coroner would reach the Shimerdas' sometime that afternoon, but the missionary priest was at the other end of his parish, a hundred miles away, and the trains were not running.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
16  THE WEEK FOLLOWING Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year's Day all the world about us was a broth of grey slush, and the guttered slope between the windmill and the barn was running black water.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
17  We were standing outside talking, when they all came running up the steps together, big and little, tow heads and gold heads and brown, and flashing little naked legs; a veritable explosion of life out of the dark cave into the sunlight.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
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