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1  This, she said, was her rattlesnake cane.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
2  She's not much older than you, twelve or thirteen, maybe, and she's as bright as a new dollar.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
3  When she brought the soap and towels, I told her that I was used to taking my bath without help.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
4  'Here are your clean clothes,' she went on, stroking my coverlid with her brown hand as she talked.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
5  The road followed the windings of the draw; when she came to the first bend, she waved at me and disappeared.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
6  As I grew older, I came to believe that it was only because she was so often thinking of things that were far away.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
7  A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me; I knew that she must be my grandmother.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
8  The woman wore a fringed shawl tied over her head, and she carried a little tin trunk in her arms, hugging it as if it were a baby.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
9  She had been crying, I could see, but when I opened my eyes she smiled, peered at me anxiously, and sat down on the foot of my bed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
10  I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife; she had killed a good many rattlers on her way back and forth.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  The woman had on her head the same embroidered shawl with silk fringes that she wore when she had alighted from the train at Black Hawk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
12  But after the men came in from the fields, and we were all seated at the supper table, then she asked Jake about the old place and about our friends and neighbours there.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
13  Her voice was high and rather shrill, and she often spoke with an anxious inflection, for she was exceedingly desirous that everything should go with due order and decorum.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
14  Grandmother had told me while she was getting supper that he was an Austrian who came to this country a young boy and had led an adventurous life in the Far West among mining-camps and cow outfits.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
15  She was a spare, tall woman, a little stooped, and she was apt to carry her head thrust forward in an attitude of attention, as if she were looking at something, or listening to something, far away.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
16  I had almost forgotten that I had a grandmother, when she came out, her sunbonnet on her head, a grain-sack in her hand, and asked me if I did not want to go to the garden with her to dig potatoes for dinner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
17  The patch of yellow sunlight on the floor travelled back toward the stairway, and grandmother and I talked about my journey, and about the arrival of the new Bohemian family; she said they were to be our nearest neighbours.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
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