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1  Antonia heated the water for him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
2  So few folks does know how to make a good tight box that'll turn water.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
3  Two Swedes had fell out of that bucket once, and hit the water, feet down.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
4  I ran out and met her as she brought her horses up to the windmill to water them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
5  As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
6  Peter shuffled to his feet, caught up the teakettle and mixed him some hot water and whiskey.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
7  The bucket travelled across a box canon three hundred feet deep, and about a third full of water.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
8  They did not take the path around the pond, but plunged through the muddy water, without even lifting their skirts.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
9  Going out through the tunnel, I gave the hens their corn, emptied the ice from their drinking-pan, and filled it with water.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
10  She heard our wagon, looked back over her shoulder, and, catching up her pail of water, started at a run for the hole in the bank.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
11  I resumed all my chores, carried in the cobs and wood and water, and spent the afternoons at the barn, watching Jake shell corn with a hand-sheller.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
12  While the horses drew in the water, and nosed each other, and then drank again, Antonia sat down on the windmill step and rested her head on her hand.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
13  Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in the immigrant car ahead there was a family from 'across the water' whose destination was the same as ours.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
14  The stove was very large, with bright nickel trimmings, and behind it there was a long wooden bench against the wall, and a tin washtub, into which grandmother poured hot and cold water.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
15  THE WEEK FOLLOWING Christmas brought in a thaw, and by New Year's Day all the world about us was a broth of grey slush, and the guttered slope between the windmill and the barn was running black water.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
16  I used to wonder, when they came in tired from the fields, their feet numb and their hands cracked and sore, how they could do all the chores so conscientiously: feed and water and bed the horses, milk the cows, and look after the pigs.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
17  Half the sky was chequered with black thunderheads, but all the west was luminous and clear: in the lightning flashes it looked like deep blue water, with the sheen of moonlight on it; and the mottled part of the sky was like marble pavement, like the quay of some splendid seacoast city, doomed to destruction.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
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