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1  When we reached the door of the theatre, the streets were shining with rain.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
2  They were big and warm and full of light, like the sun shining on brown pools in the wood.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
3  I saw a long table, rows of wooden chairs against the wall, and a shining range in one corner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  The white summer moon was shining outside, the windmill was pumping lazily in the light breeze.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
5  She was lovely to see, with her eyes shining, and her lips always a little parted when she danced.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
6  The sunlight poured in, making everything on the table shine and glitter and the flame of the alcohol lamp disappear altogether.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
7  Sometimes he was completely hidden by the clouds of snow that rose about him; then he and the horses would emerge black and shining.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
8  Some of the cottonwoods had already turned, and the yellow leaves and shining white bark made them look like the gold and silver trees in fairy tales.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
9  I lay awake and watched the moonlight shining over the barn and the stacks and the pond, and the windmill making its old dark shadow against the blue sky.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
10  We burrowed down in the straw and curled up close together, watching the angry red die out of the west and the stars begin to shine in the clear, windy sky.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
11  The sun was gone; the frozen streets stretched long and blue before me; the lights were shining pale in kitchen windows, and I could smell the suppers cooking as I passed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
12  Though we had come from such different parts of the world, in both of us there was some dusky superstition that those shining groups have their influence upon what is and what is not to be.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII