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1 We met like the people in the old song, in silence, if not in tears.
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV
2 I was overcome by content and drowsiness and by the warm silence about me.
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
3 We stood there in friendly silence, while the feeble minstrel sheltered in Antonia's hair went on with its scratchy chirp.
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
4 That silence seemed to ooze out of the ground, to hang under the foliage of the black maple trees with the bats and shadows.
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
5 Now there was a place where the girls could wear their new dresses, and where one could laugh aloud without being reproved by the ensuing silence.
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
6 'After the long winter evenings on the prairie, with Ambrosch's sullen silences and her mother's complaints, the Harlings' house seemed, as she said, 'like Heaven' to her.'
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
7 I could see the little chap, sitting here every evening by the windmill, nursing his pipe and listening to the silence; the wheeze of the pump, the grunting of the pigs, an occasional squawking when the hens were disturbed by a rat.
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
8 Grandmother always talked, dear woman: to herself or to the Lord, if there was no one else to listen; but grandfather was naturally taciturn, and Jake and Otto were often so tired after supper that I used to feel as if I were surrounded by a wall of silence.
My AntoniaBy Willa Cather ContextHighlight In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV