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1  Outside, her six-year-old boy chopped wood.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  If she was the naive girl, Guy Pollock was the clumsy boy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  She held out her hands as much to that sanctity as to the boy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  The smallest boy or the most secluded grandam could tell you whether No.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  Carol noted that though Bresnahan wore spats and a stick, no small boy jeered.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  In a moment he was cautiously attacking: "That's a wonderful boy, Will Kennicott."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
7  Then the baby was born, without unusual difficulty: a boy with straight back and strong legs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  He kept the loading-tools he had used as a boy: a capper for shot-gun shells, a mold for lead bullets.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  Will is a dear hard-working boy but he's inclined to be too serious, and you've taught him how to play.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  Bogart, son of the righteous widow who lived across the alley, was at this time a boy of fourteen or fifteen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Cy was no longer the weedy boy who had sat in the loft speculating about Carol's egotism and the mysteries of generation.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  She went into the house, a frail small woman, still winsome but hopeless of eye as she staggered with the weight of the drowsy boy in her arms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  She saw that a boy of four or five was staring at her from the hall, a boy in gingham shirt and faded corduroy trousers, but large-eyed, firm-mouthed, wide-browed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  The oldest boy takes a mouth-organ out of his coat pocket, wipes the tobacco crumbs off, and plays "Marching through Georgia" till every head in the car begins to ache.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
16  In every block the householders, Sam Clark, the wealthy Mr. Dawson, all save asthmatic Ezra Stowbody who extravagantly hired a boy, were seen perilously staggering up ladders, carrying storm windows and screwing them to second-story jambs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
17  She pleased Kennicott by being friendly with the complacent maturity of Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Elder, and when she had often enough been in conference upon the Elders' new Cadillac car, or the job which the oldest Clark boy had taken in the office of the flour-mill, these topics became important, things to follow up day by day.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
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