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1  My father, he went much to school.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
2  My teacher at the school has explain.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
3  They go to school together and are friends from boys.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
4  AFTER I BEGAN TO go to the country school, I saw less of the Bohemians.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
5  He told me he had a nice 'lady-teacher' and that he liked to go to school.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
6  Tony learned English so quickly that by the time school began she could speak as well as any of us.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
7  Grandmother wants to know if you can't go to the term of school that begins next week over at the sod schoolhouse.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
8  He and grandmother were getting old for the heavy work of a farm, and as I was now thirteen they thought I ought to be going to school.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
9  When Sally got back from school, she sat down in her hat and coat and drummed the plantation melodies that Negro minstrel troupes brought to town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
10  Before the spring term of school was over, I could fight, play 'keeps,' tease the little girls, and use forbidden words as well as any boy in my class.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
11  I was tired of school, tired of winter clothes, of the rutted streets, of the dirty drifts and the piles of cinders that had lain in the yards so long.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
12  Because he was always first in his classes at school, and could mend the water-pipes or the doorbell and take the clock to pieces, she seemed to think him a sort of prince.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
13  If I loitered on the playground after school, or went to the post-office for the mail and lingered to hear the gossip about the cigar-stand, it would be growing dark by the time I came home.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
14  I was glad, when I came home from school at noon, to see a farm-wagon standing in the back yard, and I was always ready to run downtown to get beefsteak or baker's bread for unexpected company.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
15  In the morning, when I was fighting my way to school against the wind, I couldn't see anything but the road in front of me; but in the late afternoon, when I was coming home, the town looked bleak and desolate to me.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
16  He said he would have come to see the Shimerdas before, but he had hired out to husk corn all the fall, and since winter began he had been going to the school by the mill, to learn English, along with the little children.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
17  All the young men felt the attraction of the fine, well-set-up country girls who had come to town to earn a living, and, in nearly every case, to help the father struggle out of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
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