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1  Grandmother moved about quietly, so as not to disturb him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
2  'The prayers of all good people are good,' he said quietly.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
3  The cold was not severe, but the storm was quiet and resistless.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
4  Except when the father was at home, the Harling house was never quiet.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
5  She was so crushed and quiet that nobody seemed to want to humble her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III
6  Then, quietly as a shadow, Mr. Shimerda came out from behind the stove.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
7  'It will be easy to decide all that, Emmaline,' said grandfather quietly.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
8  He was sitting on the edge of the cattle-pond, having a quiet pipe before supper.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VII
9  Mr. Harling not only demanded a quiet house, he demanded all his wife's attention.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
10  The quiet was delightful, and the ticking clock was the most pleasant of companions.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
11  Saturday night after supper I ran downtown to the hotel and slipped quietly into the parlour.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VII
12  Mr. Shimerda rose, crossed himself, and quietly knelt down before the tree, his head sunk forward.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XII
13  I waited until all was quiet and the old people were asleep, then raised my window, climbed out, and went softly through the yard.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
14  Surely, his exhausted spirit, so tired of cold and crowding and the struggle with the ever-falling snow, was resting now in this quiet house.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
15  I soon learned that if I were sent over on an errand and found Mrs. Harling at the piano, I must sit down and wait quietly until she turned to me.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
16  Before I could sit down in the chair she offered me, the miracle happened; one of those quiet moments that clutch the heart, and take more courage than the noisy, excited passages in life.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
17  Sometimes when he came he was silent and moody, and after a few sarcastic remarks went away again, to tramp the streets of Lincoln, which were almost as quiet and oppressively domestic as those of Black Hawk.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
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