1 They made a gold ribbon across the prairie.
2 After the sun sank, a cold wind sprang up and moaned over the prairie.
3 The whole prairie was like the bush that burned with fire and was not consumed.
4 Almost every day she came running across the prairie to have her reading lesson with me.
5 If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.
6 She turned her face from me and looked off at the red streak of dying light, over the dark prairie.
7 More than once Crazy Mary chased her across the prairie and round and round the Shimerdas' cornfield.
8 Ambrosch come along by the cornfield yesterday where I was at work and showed me three prairie dogs he'd shot.
9 The sky was brilliantly blue, and the sunlight on the glittering white stretches of prairie was almost blinding.
10 The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up.
11 Before I knew Lena, I thought of her as something wild, that always lived on the prairie, because I had never seen her under a roof.
12 They were always ready to forget their troubles at home, and to run away with me over the prairie, scaring rabbits or starting up flocks of quail.
13 Fuchs put in a cheerful word and said prairie dogs were clean beasts and ought to be good for food, but their family connections were against them.
14 We had been silent a long time, and the edge of the sun sank nearer and nearer the prairie floor, when we saw a figure moving on the edge of the upland, a gun over his shoulder.
15 The road from the post-office came directly by our door, crossed the farmyard, and curved round this little pond, beyond which it began to climb the gentle swell of unbroken prairie to the west.
16 Black Hawk, the new world in which we had come to live, was a clean, well-planted little prairie town, with white fences and good green yards about the dwellings, wide, dusty streets, and shapely little trees growing along the wooden sidewalks.
17 Years afterward, when the open-grazing days were over, and the red grass had been ploughed under and under until it had almost disappeared from the prairie; when all the fields were under fence, and the roads no longer ran about like wild things, but followed the surveyed section-lines, Mr. Shimerda's grave was still there, with a sagging wire fence around it, and an unpainted wooden cross.
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