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1  There was an old man, tall and stooped.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
2  I'm Mr. Burden's hired man, and I'm to drive you out.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
3  Everything about this old man was in keeping with his dignified manner.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: III
4  He slept with the old man and the two boys in the dugout barn, along with the oxen.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
5  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
6  Presently a man with a lantern approached them and began to talk, shouting and exclaiming.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
7  She was the only one of his family who could rouse the old man from the torpor in which he seemed to live.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
8  It was belong to a great man, very rich, like what you not got here; many fields, many forests, many big house.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
9  The old man's smile, as he listened, was so full of sadness, of pity for things, that I never afterward forgot it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VI
10  Grandfather's eyes were not at all like those of an old man; they were bright blue, and had a fresh, frosty sparkle.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
11  He told Antonia that in his country only rich people had cows, but here any man could have one who would take care of her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
12  I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
13  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.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
14  His creditor was Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk money-lender, a man of evil name throughout the county, of whom I shall have more to say later.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
15  He seemed to us an experienced and worldly man who had been almost everywhere; in his conversation he threw out lightly the names of distant states and cities.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
16  As he walked about the platform in his high-heeled boots, looking for our trunks, I saw that he was a rather slight man, quick and wiry, and light on his feet.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
17  He must once have been a very strong man, but now his great frame, with big, knotty joints, had a wasted look, and the skin was drawn tight over his high cheekbones.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
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