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1  We never even saw any of Tony's pretty dresses.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
2  After I was dressed, I explored the long cellar next the kitchen.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
3  I stood watching their white dresses glimmer smaller and smaller down the sidewalk as they went away.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XIII
4  The dead man was frozen through, 'just as stiff as a dressed turkey you hang out to freeze,' Jake said.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
5  And here she was, brushed and smoothed and dressed like a town girl, smiling at us with perfect composure.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
6  The girls had on cotton dresses under their shawls; they kept shivering beneath the buffalo robes and hugging each other for warmth.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
7  Now there was a place where the girls could wear their new dresses, and where one could laugh aloud without being reproved by the ensuing silence.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
8  Mrs. Vanni received them at the entrance, always dressed in lavender with a great deal of black lace, her important watch-chain lying on her bosom.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
9  Such disappointments only gave greater zest to the nights when we acted charades, or had a costume ball in the back parlour, with Sally always dressed like a boy.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
10  Then he put on a clean shirt and clean socks, and after he was dressed he kissed her and the little one and took his gun and said he was going out to hunt rabbits.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
11  I noticed, in a heavy frame, one of those depressing 'crayon enlargements' often seen in farm-house parlours, the subject being a round-eyed baby in short dresses.'
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II
12  At three o'clock one met little girls in white dresses and little boys in the round-collared shirts of the time, hurrying along the sidewalk on their way to the tent.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
13  Whenever we rode over in that direction we saw her out among her cattle, bareheaded and barefooted, scantily dressed in tattered clothing, always knitting as she watched her herd.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
14  If I happened to walk home with her, she told me all about the dresses she was helping to make, or about what she saw and heard when she was with Tiny Soderball at the hotel on Saturday nights.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: V
15  While I was waiting for him to come out of his developing-room, I walked about trying to recognize the likenesses on his walls: girls in Commencement dresses, country brides and grooms holding hands, family groups of three generations.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: II
16  I remember how the world looked from our sitting-room window as I dressed behind the stove that morning: the low sky was like a sheet of metal; the blond cornfields had faded out into ghostliness at last; the little pond was frozen under its stiff willow bushes.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
17  If Miss d'Arnault stopped practising for a moment and went toward the window, she saw this hideous little pickaninny, dressed in an old piece of sacking, standing in the open space between the hollyhock rows, his body rocking automatically, his blind face lifted to the sun and wearing an expression of idiotic rapture.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
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