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1  No, I don't want you to go with me.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
2  But maybe you have all the friends you want.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
3  I don't want to have no trouble with Ambrosch.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
4  She is too little to understand what you want of her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
5  I don't want that Jake get more done in one day than me.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
6  If you're going to be a preacher, I want you to marry me.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
7  It makes a woman grasping to see her children want for things.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
8  'I don't want to marry Nick, or any other man,' Lena murmured.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
9  The old woman downstairs didn't want to let me come up very much.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
10  I want them to come over and help me cut my oats and wheat next month.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
11  I won't be able to pay up on it at first, but I want her to have it before she is too old to enjoy it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: II
12  I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
13  When Mrs. Shimerda saw us coming, she ran from her door down into the draw behind the stable, as if she did not want to meet us.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
14  He kept an alcohol lamp in his room, and a French coffee-pot, and his wife made coffee for him at any hour of the night he happened to want it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
15  Jim,' Antonia said dreamily, 'I want you to tell the girls about how the Spanish first came here, like you and Charley Harling used to talk about.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIV
16  I didn't want her ring, and I felt there was something reckless and extravagant about her wishing to give it away to a boy she had never seen before.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
17  I had almost forgotten that I had a grandmother, when she came out, her sunbonnet on her head, a grain-sack in her hand, and asked me if I did not want to go to the garden with her to dig potatoes for dinner.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
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