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1  Mr. Brocklehurst buys all our food and all our clothes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  ---, by Naomi Brocklehurst, of Brocklehurst Hall, in this county.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  Consistency, my dear Mr. Brocklehurst; I advocate consistency in all things.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  I mention this in your hearing, Jane, that you may not attempt to impose on Mr. Brocklehurst.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  ; the promise pledged by Mr. Brocklehurst to apprise Miss Temple and the teachers of my vicious nature.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  Meantime, Mr. Brocklehurst, standing on the hearth with his hands behind his back, majestically surveyed the whole school.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  With these words Mr. Brocklehurst put into my hand a thin pamphlet sewn in a cover, and having rung for his carriage, he departed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  I shall return to Brocklehurst Hall in the course of a week or two: my good friend, the Archdeacon, will not permit me to leave him sooner.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
11  These ladies were deferentially received by Miss Temple, as Mrs. and the Misses Brocklehurst, and conducted to seats of honour at the top of the room.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  I heard the name of Mr. Brocklehurst pronounced by some lips; at which Miss Miller shook her head disapprovingly; but she made no great effort to check the general wrath; doubtless she shared in it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  With this sublime conclusion, Mr. Brocklehurst adjusted the top button of his surtout, muttered something to his family, who rose, bowed to Miss Temple, and then all the great people sailed in state from the room.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  Hitherto, while gathering up the discourse of Mr. Brocklehurst and Miss Temple, I had not, at the same time, neglected precautions to secure my personal safety; which I thought would be effected, if I could only elude observation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  I have not yet alluded to the visits of Mr. Brocklehurst; and indeed that gentleman was from home during the greater part of the first month after my arrival; perhaps prolonging his stay with his friend the archdeacon: his absence was a relief to me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
16  What had just passed; what Mrs. Reed had said concerning me to Mr. Brocklehurst; the whole tenor of their conversation, was recent, raw, and stinging in my mind; I had felt every word as acutely as I had heard it plainly, and a passion of resentment fomented now within me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
17  Leaning a little back on my bench, I could see the looks and grimaces with which they commented on this manoeuvre: it was a pity Mr. Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with the outside of the cup and platter, the inside was further beyond his interference than he imagined.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
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