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1  They had strong, independent natures, both of them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
2  She was brown as an Indian woman, tall, and very strong.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
3  Krajiek says he's turrible strong and can stand anything.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
4  When she smiled, she showed two rows of strong, crooked yellow teeth.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
5  She was then fifty-five years old, a strong woman, of unusual endurance.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
6  She was nearly as strong as I, and uncannily clever at all boys' sports.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
7  He looked like some glistening African god of pleasure, full of strong, savage blood.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
8  But Charley Harling and I had a strong belief that he had been along this very river.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
9  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
10  As the sun sank there came a sudden coolness and the strong smell of earth and drying grass.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
11  The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
12  The wind was so strong that I had to hold my hat on, and the girls' skirts were blown out before them.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  Jelinek kept rye bread on hand and smoked fish and strong imported cheeses to please the foreign palate.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
14  Marek was strong, and Ambrosch worked him hard; but he could never teach him to cultivate corn, I remember.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
15  I overlooked what she was doing and I said out loud: "Mrs. Shimerda, don't you put that strong yellow soap near that baby."
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
16  One son, Fuchs said, was well-grown, and strong enough to work the land; but the father was old and frail and knew nothing about farming.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
17  He must once have been a very strong man, but now his great frame, with big, knotty joints, had a wasted look, and the skin was drawn tight over his high cheekbones.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
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