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1  He bought her ticket and put her on the train.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
2  She had no choice but to go on to Kansas City and take the first fast train for home.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
3  They had to stop over several hours at Waymore Junction to catch the Black Hawk train.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
4  On the train it was very difficult to get milk for the babies and to keep their bottles clean.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
5  We stumbled down from the train to a wooden siding, where men were running about with lanterns.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  AFTER DINNER THE NEXT day I said good-bye and drove back to Hastings to take the train for Black Hawk.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: III
7  Leo and Yulka were to drive to town to meet their father, who would return from Wilber on the noon train.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
8  It was a matter of the utmost importance to him never to be seen in his blue trousers away from his train.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II
9  Mr. Cutter showed his wife's ticket to the conductor, and settled her in her seat before the train moved off.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
10  The conductor told her the Black Hawk train was due at Waymore twelve minutes after the Kansas City train left.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
11  He had never been in a railway train until the morning when we set out together to try our fortunes in a new world.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
12  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.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
13  When Mr. Shimerda and Krajiek drove up in their wagon to take Peter to the train, they found him with a dripping beard, surrounded by heaps of melon rinds.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
14  This was the road over which Antonia and I came on that night when we got off the train at Black Hawk and were bedded down in the straw, wondering children, being taken we knew not whither.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: III
15  Jake and Otto were sure that when they galloped round that ring the Indians tortured prisoners, bound to a stake in the centre; but grandfather thought they merely ran races or trained horses there.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
16  At the end of his run he stepped indifferently from the train along with the passengers, his street hat on his head and his conductor's cap in an alligator-skin bag, went directly into the station and changed his clothes.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II
17  While grandmother was trying to make me comfortable, grandfather went to the depot and learned that Wick Cutter had come home on the night express from the east, and had left again on the six o'clock train for Denver that morning.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
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