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1  She is too little to understand what you want of her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
2  Seeing that she did not understand, grandfather turned back.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
3  Last night he take me for see, and I can understand very much talk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
4  He looked at us understandingly, then took grandmother's hand and bent over it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
5  She seemed to understand, though I was too faint and miserable to go into explanations.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
6  Krajiek could understand them a little, but he had cheated them in a trade, so they avoided him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
7  She said she wanted to see 'what the girl came from' and to have a clear understanding with her mother.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
8  After that Ordinsky was friendly to me, and behaved as if there were some deep understanding between us.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: IV
9  She was quick at understanding the grandmothers who spoke no English, and the most reticent and distrustful of them would tell her their story without realizing they were doing so.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II