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1  Her electric activity veiled her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  In the gray light from the small electric bulb down the hall she could see that he was frowning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
3  Inside the store, a greasy marble soda-fountain with an electric lamp of red and green and curdled-yellow mosaic shade.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  She saw the palms as a jungle, the pink-shaded electric globes as an opaline haze, and the eye-glassed faculty as Olympians.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
5  They were composed of ornamented posts with clusters of high-powered electric lights along two or three blocks on Main Street.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  To him motoring was a faith not to be questioned, a high-church cult, with electric sparks for candles, and piston-rings possessing the sanctity of altar-vessels.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  Late at night, a step on the wooden porch, heard through her confusion of sleep; the storm-door opened; fumbling over the inner door-panels; the buzz of the electric bell.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  He burrowed his eyes in the dwarf blue pillow to escape the electric light, then sat up abruptly, small and frail in his woolly nightdrawers, his floss of brown hair wild, the pillow clutched to his breast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII