1 And for all its fat richness, theirs is a pioneer land.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER III 2 Even before the entrance of the coffee and hot rolls Carol seized on Mrs. Champ Perry, the kind and ample-bosomed pioneer woman who gave historic dignity to the modern matrons of the Thanatopsis.
3 "This is a useful market-center, an interesting pioneer post, but it is not a home for me," meditated the stranger Carol.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 4 For many years past the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate. 5 Therefore, though I am but ill qualified for a pioneer, in the application of these two semi-sciences to the whale, I will do my endeavor.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie. 6 Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I 7 To the Anglo-Saxon race has been intrusted the destinies of the world, during its pioneer period of struggle and conflict.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher StoweGet Context In CHAPTER XLIII 8 He had been a pioneer in California, and could narrate many a strange tale of fortunes made and fortunes lost in those wild, halcyon days.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH 9 You may look upon me simply as an irregular pioneer, who goes in front of the regular forces of the country.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 10 A more resolute, indefatigable pioneer never wrought amidst rocks and dangers.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVIII 11 Many had moved for no reason at all, except that the restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 12 On both their mother's and their father's side they were Georgians, north Georgians, only a generation away from pioneers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER V 13 But we country folks will go back a hundred years like the pioneers who had little cabins and just scratched a few acres--and barely existed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 14 They are pioneers, these sweaty wayfarers, for all their telephones and bank-accounts and automatic pianos and co-operative leagues.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER III 15 She herself knew two of the pioneers: the Perrys.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XII