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1  I wish my papa live to see this summer.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
2  Maybe I'll go home and help you thresh next summer.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
3  'It will be summer a long while yet,' I reassured her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIX
4  It was as if we were being punished for loving the loveliness of summer.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
5  Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
6  The two Russians made good farm-hands, and in summer they worked out together.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
7  Dancing became popular now, just as roller skating had been the summer before.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
8  A little girl who lived on the Black Hawk road was bitten on the ankle and had been sick all summer.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
9  All through that first spring and summer I kept hoping that Ambrosch would bring Antonia and Yulka to see our new house.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
10  The next summer, when the long trains of wagons came through with all the women and children, they had the sunflower trail to follow.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
11  They were both of them jovial about the cold in winter and the heat in summer, always ready to work overtime and to meet emergencies.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
12  They told me they worked in Kansas City in the winter, and in summer they went out among the farming towns with their tent and taught dancing.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VIII
13  Some of the high-school girls were jolly and pretty, but they stayed indoors in winter because of the cold, and in summer because of the heat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
14  When Ole was cultivating his corn that summer, he used to get discouraged in the field, tie up his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
15  All those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
16  The wind that sweeps in from the open country strips away all the leafy screens that hide one yard from another in summer, and the houses seem to draw closer together.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: VI
17  Later in the summer, when Lena went home for a week to visit her mother, I heard from Antonia that young Lovett drove all the way out there to see her, and took her buggy-riding.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
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