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1  Her brown hair was curly and wild-looking.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
2  When I nodded, she pulled my hair and told me I knew too much, anyhow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
3  I seen bunches of hair and stuff sticking to the poles and straw along the roof.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
4  When he was a young man his hair and beard were red; his eyebrows were still coppery.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
5  He wore no hat, and his thick, iron-grey hair was brushed straight back from his forehead.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
6  He untied the handkerchief, separated her hair with his fingers, and stood looking down at the green insect.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
7  He stood brushing his hand over his smooth grey hair, as if he were trying to clear away a fog about his head.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
8  Her father put his hand on her hair, but she caught his wrist and lifted it carefully away, talking to him rapidly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
9  Sally was a wild thing, with sunburned yellow hair, bobbed about her ears, and a brown skin, for she never wore a hat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: II
10  A tall woman, with wrinkled brown skin and black hair, stood looking down at me; I knew that she must be my grandmother.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  We stood there in friendly silence, while the feeble minstrel sheltered in Antonia's hair went on with its scratchy chirp.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
12  I can still see those two men sitting on the bench; Otto's close-clipped head and Jake's shaggy hair slicked flat in front by a wet comb.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
13  Grandmother made her wear a sunbonnet, but as soon as we reached the garden she threw it on the grass and let her hair fly in the breeze.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
14  At a distance, on his wagon, he looked like an old man; his hair and beard were of such a pale flaxen colour that they seemed white in the sun.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
15  She had beautiful chestnut hair, coils of it; her forehead was low and smooth, and her commanding dark eyes regarded the world indifferently and fearlessly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
16  The next Sunday Lena appeared at church, a little late, with her hair done up neatly on her head, like a young woman, wearing shoes and stockings, and the new dress, which she had made over for herself very becomingly.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
17  Her yellow hair was burned to a ruddy thatch on her head; but her legs and arms, curiously enough, in spite of constant exposure to the sun, kept a miraculous whiteness which somehow made her seem more undressed than other girls who went scantily clad.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
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