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1  Every morning I wakened with a fresh consciousness that winter was over.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
2  This cabin was his hermitage until the winter snows penned him in his cave.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
3  It was a day of amber sunlight, but there was a shiver of coming winter in the air.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
4  The big storm of the winter began on my eleventh birthday, the twentieth of January.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
5  WHEN SPRING CAME, AFTER that hard winter, one could not get enough of the nimble air.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
6  It was in the dead of winter and the groom's party went over to the wedding in sledges.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
7  They were to be picked late, when the hard frosts had set in, and put away for winter use.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
8  The old figure stirred me as it had never done before and seemed a good omen for the winter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
9  It was as if I had let the old man in out of the tormenting winter, and were sitting there with him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
10  That day the floor was covered with garden things, drying for winter; corn and beans and fat yellow cucumbers.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
11  'If they're nice people, I hate to think of them spending the winter in that cave of Krajiek's,' said grandmother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
12  The wolves were bad that winter, and everyone knew it, yet when they heard the first wolf-cry, the drivers were not much alarmed.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
13  They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
14  We were glad to go in and get warm by his kitchen stove and to see his squashes and Christmas melons, heaped in the storeroom for winter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
15  Jake and Otto joined us from the basement and we sat about the stove, enjoying the deepening grey of the winter afternoon and the atmosphere of comfort and security in my grandfather's house.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
16  He said he would have come to see the Shimerdas before, but he had hired out to husk corn all the fall, and since winter began he had been going to the school by the mill, to learn English, along with the little children.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
17  I did not see him do it, but this I know: after all his furniture and his cookstove and pots and pans had been hauled off by the purchasers, when his house was stripped and bare, he sat down on the floor with his clasp-knife and ate all the melons that he had put away for winter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
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