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1  In some ways you're older than boys of your age.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
2  Three of the Harling children were near me in age.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
3  I did not want to find her aged and broken; I really dreaded it.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  Suddenly put down among boys of my own age, I found I had a great deal to learn.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
5  As she told them off in turn, she made several mistakes about ages, and they roared with laughter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
6  As I turned him over, I began to feel proud of him, to have a kind of respect for his age and size.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
7  People said there must be something queer about a boy who showed no interest in girls of his own age, but who could be lively enough when he was with Tony and Lena or the three Marys.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
8  The older girls, who helped to break up the wild sod, learned so much from life, from poverty, from their mothers and grandmothers; they had all, like Antonia, been early awakened and made observant by coming at a tender age from an old country to a new.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX