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1  Pavel sat still and watched his horses.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
2  Mr. Shimerda signed to us that Pavel was asleep.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
3  But the groom's movement had given Pavel an idea.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
4  Pavel called for something and struggled up on his elbow.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
5  Pavel made a rasping sound when he breathed, and he kept moaning.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
6  Tony whispered to me that he was afraid Pavel would never get well.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
7  Presently Pavel began to talk to Mr. Shimerda, scarcely above a whisper.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
8  Their last names were unpronounceable, so they were called Pavel and Peter.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
9  Pavel reached the brow of the hill, but only two sledges followed him down the other side.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
10  The only sledge left out of six was not very far behind them, and Pavel's middle horse was failing.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
11  Peter and Pavel drove in the groom's sledge, and six sledges followed with all his relatives and friends.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
12  Pavel was very bad, he said, and wanted to talk to Mr. Shimerda and his daughter; he had come to fetch them.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
13  The milk was good for Pavel, who was often sick, and he could make butter by beating sour cream with a wooden spoon.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
14  When Pavel and Peter were young men, living at home in Russia, they were asked to be groomsmen for a friend who was to marry the belle of another village.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
15  Pavel snatched the cup and drank, then made Peter give him the bottle and slipped it under his pillow, grinning disagreeably, as if he had outwitted someone.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
16  Pavel, the tall one, was said to be an anarchist; since he had no means of imparting his opinions, probably his wild gesticulations and his generally excited and rebellious manner gave rise to this supposition.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
17  Soon after Peter renewed his note, Pavel strained himself lifting timbers for a new barn, and fell over among the shavings with such a gush of blood from the lungs that his fellow workmen thought he would die on the spot.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
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