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1  She didn't take them out of her trunks.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
2  She'd even bought silver spoons and forks, and kept them in her trunk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
3  There was a trunk on the front seat with the driver, and another behind.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
4  Then the minister's wife went through her old trunks and found some things she had worn before her marriage.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
5  While Antonia was packing her trunk and putting her room in order, to leave it, the front doorbell rang violently.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
6  That afternoon, while I was asleep, Antonia took grandmother with her, and went over to the Cutters' to pack her trunk.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
7  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.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
8  Behind the hotel there was an old store building, where the salesmen opened their big trunks and spread out their samples on the counters.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
9  As he walked about the platform in his high-heeled boots, looking for our trunks, I saw that he was a rather slight man, quick and wiry, and light on his feet.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
10  I had never seen anything in that trunk but old boots and spurs and pistols, and a fascinating mixture of yellow leather thongs, cartridges, and shoemaker's wax.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
11  They sat under a little oak, Tony resting against the trunk and the other girls leaning against her and each other, and listened to the little I was able to tell them about Coronado and his search for the Seven Golden Cities.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV