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1  She sighed, "Oh, let 'em alone.'"
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Miss Villets blessedly left her alone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Carol was alone from three till midnight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
4  She sat alone on the porch, that evening.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  She could depend upon them; she was not battling alone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  In the second row she saw Miles Bjornstam, not with Bea but alone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  She was there all alone, and she must 'a' spent five minutes getting a picture straight.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
8  In panic she insisted on being attentive to Kennicott, when he wanted to be left alone to read the newspaper.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  That evening, when Kennicott was trimming the grass along the walk with sheep-shears, Bresnahan rolled up, alone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
10  She was alone in this house, this strange still house, among the shadows of dead thoughts and haunting repressions.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  She saw Erik Valborg coming, in an ancient highwater suit, tramping sullenly and alone, striking at the rails with a stick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
12  She was relieved to be assured that she did not want bookish conversation alone; that she did not expect the town to become a Bohemia.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  He was conscious that Carol was near him, that she was important, that he was afraid of her disapproval; but he was content to be alone.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
14  She was the more absurd to herself in that, after the rite of dining alone, she could go out to the kitchen, lean against the sink, and talk to them.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  There was only Miles Bjornstam, in his black wedding-suit, walking quite alone, head down, behind the shabby hearse that bore the bodies of his wife and baby.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
16  The night telegraph-operator at the railroad station was the most melodramatic figure in town: awake at three in the morning, alone in a room hectic with clatter of the telegraph key.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
17  His glances at her lips and hair and shoulders had revealed to her that she was not a wife-and-mother alone, but a girl; that there still were men in the world, as there had been in college days.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
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