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During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had known long ago and whom both of us admired.†
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NOTE: The Bohemian name Antonia is strongly accented on the first syllable, like the English name Anthony, and the 'i' is, of course, given the sound of long 'e'.†
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The patch of yellow sunlight on the floor travelled back toward the stairway, and grandmother and I talked about my journey, and about the arrival of the new Bohemian family; she said they were to be our nearest neighbours.†
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III ON SUNDAY MORNING Otto Fuchs was to drive us over to make the acquaintance of our new Bohemian neighbours.†
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The Bohemian family, grandmother told me as we drove along, had bought the homestead of a fellow countryman, Peter Krajiek, and had paid him more than it was worth.†
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The Shimerdas were the first Bohemian family to come to this part of the county.†
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But Bohemians has a natural distrust of Austrians.'†
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She made Mrs. Shimerda understand the friendly intention of our visit, and the Bohemian woman handled the loaves of bread and even smelled them, and examined the pies with lively curiosity, exclaiming, 'Much good, much thank!'†
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His mother scowled and said sternly, 'Marek!' then spoke rapidly to Krajiek in Bohemian.†
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Before I got into the wagon, he took a book out of his pocket, opened it, and showed me a page with two alphabets, one English and the other Bohemian.†
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V WE KNEW THAT THINGS were hard for our Bohemian neighbours, but the two girls were lighthearted and never complained.†
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She said they came from a part of Russia where the language was not very different from Bohemian, and if I wanted to go to their place, she could talk to them for me.†
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Tony made a warm nest for him in her hands; talked to him gaily and indulgently in Bohemian.†
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She was standing opposite me, pointing behind me and shouting something in Bohemian.†
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Grandmother murmured something in embarrassment, but the Bohemian woman laughed scornfully, a kind of whinny-laugh, and, catching up an empty coffee-pot from the shelf, shook it at us with a look positively vindictive.†
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They had been gathered, probably, in some deep Bohemian forest.... XI DURING THE WEEK before Christmas, Jake was the most important person of our household, for he was to go to town and do all our Christmas shopping.†
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Let's forget the Bohemians.'†
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Fuchs brought home with him a stranger, a young Bohemian who had taken a homestead near Black Hawk, and who came on his only horse to help his fellow countrymen in their trouble.†
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Antonia and Ambrosch were talking in Bohemian; disputing about which of them had done more ploughing that day.†
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XVIII AFTER I BEGAN TO go to the country school, I saw less of the Bohemians.†
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Mrs. Harling gave us a lively account of Ambrosch's behaviour throughout the interview; how he kept jumping up and putting on his cap as if he were through with the whole business, and how his mother tweaked his coat-tail and prompted him in Bohemian.†
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I told him he'd have to go to the Bohemians for beer; the Norwegians didn't have none when they threshed.†
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The Bohemian and Scandinavian girls could not get positions as teachers, because they had had no opportunity to learn the language.†
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Others, like the three Bohemian Marys, tried to make up for the years of youth they had lost.†
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Yet people saw no difference between her and the three Marys; they were all Bohemians, all 'hired girls.'†
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To-day the best that a harassed Black Hawk merchant can hope for is to sell provisions and farm machinery and automobiles to the rich farms where that first crop of stalwart Bohemian and Scandinavian girls are now the mistresses.†
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On his way home from his dull call, he would perhaps meet Tony and Lena, coming along the sidewalk whispering to each other, or the three Bohemian Marys in their long plush coats and caps, comporting themselves with a dignity that only made their eventful histories the more piquant.†
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In his saloon there were long tables where the Bohemian and German farmers could eat the lunches they brought from home while they drank their beer.†
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Sometimes there were Bohemians from Wilber, or German boys who came down on the afternoon freight from Bismarck.†
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Tony and Lena and Tiny were always there, and the three Bohemian Marys, and the Danish laundry girls.†
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When I closed my eyes I could hear them all laughing—the Danish laundry girls and the three Bohemian Marys.†
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She used to sit there at that machine by the window, pedalling the life out of it—she was so strong—and always singing them queer Bohemian songs, like she was the happiest thing in the world.†
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I heard of her from time to time; that she married, very soon after I last saw her, a young Bohemian, a cousin of Anton Jelinek; that they were poor, and had a large family.†
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She said they always spoke Bohemian at home.†
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He stood by her chair, leaning his elbows on her knees and twisting her apron strings in his slender fingers, while he told her his story softly in Bohemian, and the tears brimmed over and hung on his long lashes.†
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Leo, in a low voice, tossed off some scornful remark in Bohemian.†
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Through July, Antonia said, the house was buried in them; the Bohemians, I remembered, always planted hollyhocks.†
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Antonia spoke to Leo in Bohemian.†
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After twisting and screwing the keys, he played some Bohemian airs, without the organ to hold him back, and that went better.†
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After the concert was over, Antonia brought out a big boxful of photographs: she and Anton in their wedding clothes, holding hands; her brother Ambrosch and his very fat wife, who had a farm of her own, and who bossed her husband, I was delighted to hear; the three Bohemian Marys and their large families.†
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Cuzak had brought home with him a roll of illustrated Bohemian papers.†
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Definitions:

(1) (bohemian)
a person (often a writer or artist) living an unconventional life
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, Bohemian can refer to someone from Bohemia, the western region of the Czech Republic; or anyone from the Czech Republic.