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1  Edna's father was in the city, and had been with them several days.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXIII
2  Both children wanted to follow their father when they saw him starting out.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
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3  Edna had staked her father on his last venture, with the most gratifying results to both of them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXIII
4  She had not much of anything to say to her father, for that matter; but he did not antagonize her.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIII
5  The old gentleman, her father, I have heard, used to atone for his weekday sins with his Sunday devotions.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXII
6  A pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIII
7  I worked a big deal in futures for their father this morning; nice girls; it's time they were getting married.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XVII
8  Edna was not so consciously gratified at her husband's leaving home as she had been over the departure of her father.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV
9  Edna and her father looked very distinguished together, and excited a good deal of notice during their perambulations.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIII
10  Edna and her father had a warm, and almost violent dispute upon the subject of her refusal to attend her sister's wedding.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV
11  She wished them to taste something of the life their father had lived and known and loved when he, too, was a little child.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV
12  Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father's Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In II
13  Robert was interested, and wanted to know what manner of girls the sisters were, what the father was like, and how long the mother had been dead.
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14  His father had been in the business before him, and Monsieur Ratignolle stood well in the community and bore an enviable reputation for integrity and clearheadedness.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XVIII
15  She and her father had been to the race course, and their thoughts when they seated themselves at table were still occupied with the events of the afternoon, and their talk was still of the track.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXIII
16  Edna was glad to be rid of her father when he finally took himself off with his wedding garments and his bridal gifts, with his padded shoulders, his Bible reading, his "toddies" and ponderous oaths.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV
17  Add to this the violent opposition of her father and her sister Margaret to her marriage with a Catholic, and we need seek no further for the motives which led her to accept Monsieur Pontellier for her husband.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In VII
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