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1  There was no music, no carriages.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  I'm the celebrated musical tailor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  The insinuating music drained her independence.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Oh, I will try and get the music out of Mr. Elder.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  Carol was dizzy with music and the emotions of parting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
6  Along the road the shadows from oak-branches were inked on the snow like bars of music.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  She reveled in the Art Institute, in symphonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in the theater and classic dancing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  Of course, since we're at war with Germany, anything that any one of us doesn't like is 'pro-German,' whether it's business competition or bad music.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  The music was a reminiscence of tom-toms heard at circus fortune-telling tents or at the Minnesota State Fair, but the whole company pounded and puffed and whined in a sing-song, and looked rapturous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  People like Sam Clark and Harry Haydock aren't earnest about music and pictures and eloquent sermons and really refined movies, but then, on the other hand, people like Carol Kennicott put too much stress on all this art.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she preferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she hoped Dr. Kennicott would never lose his ability to make love to charming women, and that she had a pair of gold stockings.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  A savorless people, gulping tasteless food, and sitting afterward, coatless and thoughtless, in rocking-chairs prickly with inane decorations, listening to mechanical music, saying mechanical things about the excellence of Ford automobiles, and viewing themselves as the greatest race in the world.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII