1 This remedy worked, apparently.
2 He worked his way to this country on a little passenger boat.
3 I worked off a year's trigonometry that summer, and began Virgil alone.
4 Grandmother was in high spirits during the weeks that Antonia worked for us.
5 The two Russians made good farm-hands, and in summer they worked out together.
6 They worked in Chicago, Des Moines, Fort Wayne, but they were always unfortunate.
7 He'd collected her wages all those first years she worked out, and it was but right.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 8 Curiously enough, she reminded me of Mrs. Gardener, for whom she had worked in Black Hawk so long ago.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I 9 Marek was strong, and Ambrosch worked him hard; but he could never teach him to cultivate corn, I remember.
10 I tied my pony and went into the kitchen where Mrs. Shimerda was baking bread, chewing poppy seeds as she worked.
11 Mrs. Shimerda then drove the second cultivator; she and Antonia worked in the fields all day and did the chores at night.
12 I worked at a commodious green-topped table placed directly in front of the west window which looked out over the prairie.
13 They told me they worked in Kansas City in the winter, and in summer they went out among the farming towns with their tent and taught dancing.
14 Antonia worked on through harvest and threshing, though she was too modest to go out threshing for the neighbours, like when she was young and free.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContextHighlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 15 The daughters of Black Hawk merchants had a confident, unenquiring belief that they were 'refined,' and that the country girls, who 'worked out,' were not.
16 But when the Shimerdas found that Jake sold his pig in town that day, Ambrosch worked it out in his shrewd head that Jake had to sell his pig to pay his fine.
17 She was thinner than I had ever seen her, and looked as Mrs. Steavens said, 'worked down,' but there was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colour still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardour.
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