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1  They had only their hard fists to batter at the world with.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
2  Jake's experience of the world was not much wider than mine.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
3  As Antonia said, the whole world was changed by the snow; we kept looking in vain for familiar landmarks.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
4  In his prayer he thanked the Lord for the first Christmas, and for all that it had meant to the world ever since.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
5  He had never been in a railway train until the morning when we set out together to try our fortunes in a new world.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
6  I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
7  I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
8  JULY CAME ON with that breathless, brilliant heat which makes the plains of Kansas and Nebraska the best corn country in the world.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
9  She was four years older than I, to be sure, and had seen more of the world; but I was a boy and she was a girl, and I resented her protecting manner.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
10  That afternoon she was telling me how highly esteemed our friend the badger was in her part of the world, and how men kept a special kind of dog, with very short legs, to hunt him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
11  Though we had come from such different parts of the world, in both of us there was some dusky superstition that those shining groups have their influence upon what is and what is not to be.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
12  I suppose, in the crowded clutter of their cave, the old man had come to believe that peace and order had vanished from the earth, or existed only in the old world he had left so far behind.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
13  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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
14  He had probably lived there for years, with a fat prairie-dog for breakfast whenever he felt like it, a sheltered home, even an owl-feather bed, perhaps, and he had forgot that the world doesn't owe rattlers a living.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
15  I remember how the world looked from our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning: the low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out into ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff willow bushes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
16  Presently, as I looked with satisfaction about our comfortable sitting-room, it flashed upon me that if Mr. Shimerda's soul were lingering about in this world at all, it would be here, in our house, which had been more to his liking than any other in the neighbourhood.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
17  The light air about me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would be only sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
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