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1  We decided to have a country Christmas, without any help from town.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
2  I remembered his contented face when he was with us on Christmas Day.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
3  The white Christmas melons we did not touch, but we watched them with curiosity.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
4  As it grew dark, I asked whether I might light the Christmas tree before the lamp was brought.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
5  The boy had come to town with a neighbour to do his Christmas shopping, for he had money of his own this year.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
6  He used to help my father cut Christmas trees for me in Virginia, and he had not forgotten how much I liked them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
7  In his prayer he thanked the Lord for the first Christmas, and for all that it had meant to the world ever since.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
8  By the time we had placed the cold, fresh-smelling little tree in a corner of the sitting-room, it was already Christmas Eve.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
9  He always wrote to her on Christmas Day, he said, no matter where he was, and no matter how long it had been since his last letter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
10  We were glad to go in and get warm by his kitchen stove and to see his squashes and Christmas melons, heaped in the storeroom for winter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
11  On the morning of the twenty-second, grandfather announced at breakfast that it would be impossible to go to Black Hawk for Christmas purchases.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
12  DURING THE WEEK before Christmas, Jake was the most important person of our household, for he was to go to town and do all our Christmas shopping.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
13  On the day before Christmas, Jake packed the things we were sending to the Shimerdas in his saddle-bags and set off on grandfather's grey gelding.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
14  After we sat down to our waffles and sausage, Jake told us how pleased the Shimerdas had been with their presents; even Ambrosch was friendly and went to the creek with him to cut the Christmas tree.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
15  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.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIII
16  When fall came she was to husk corn for the neighbours until Christmas, as she had done the year before; but grandmother saved her from this by getting her a place to work with our neighbours, the Harlings.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
17  One afternoon in the week before Christmas, I came upon Lena and her funny, square-headed little brother Chris, standing before the drugstore, gazing in at the wax dolls and blocks and Noah's Arks arranged in the frosty show window.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
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