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1  He was notoriously dissolute with women.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
2  The Norwegian women didn't know where to look.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
3  The cold drove the women into the cave-house, and it was soon crowded.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
4  One sees that draught-horse neck among the peasant women in all old countries.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVII
5  The screams of the horses were more terrible to hear than the cries of the men and women.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
6  The room was invaded by beautiful women and dashing young men, laughing and talking together.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
7  The men were dressed more or less after the period in which the play was written; the women were not.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
8  While the two women were running the place alone, one of the new horses got colic and gave them a terrible fright.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
9  He always seemed pleased when he met people on the road, smiled and took off his cap to everyone, men as well as women.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
10  Crazy Mary darted out from the group of women at the church door, and ran down the road after Lena, shouting horrible threats.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
11  The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, they had the sunflower trail to follow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
12  We stood about watching them, and the powdery snow lay without melting on the caps and shoulders of the men and the shawls of the women.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
13  It took but a few moments to release the gases pent up in the poor beast, and the two women heard the rush of wind and saw the roan visibly diminish in girth.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVIII
14  Fuchs glanced about to see if there was general approval of her suggestion, then began, 'Jesus, Lover of my Soul,' and all the men and women took it up after him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XVI
15  When Frances drove out into the country on business, she would go miles out of her way to call on some of the old people, or to see the women who seldom got to town.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
16  Lena was always knitting stockings for little brothers and sisters, and even the Norwegian women, who disapproved of her, admitted that she was a good daughter to her mother.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
17  Physically they were almost a race apart, and out-of-door work had given them a vigour which, when they got over their first shyness on coming to town, developed into a positive carriage and freedom of movement, and made them conspicuous among Black Hawk women.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
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