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1  No lines were visible this morning, or else the glass was at a happier angle.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
2  On this table stood the empty bottle and glass, and from these also he averted his eyes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
3  Trenor drained the glass he had filled for himself, and paused to set it down before he answered.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  She raised herself in bed and swallowed the contents of the glass; then she blew out her candle and lay down.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  He discovered Trenor, in his day clothes, sitting, with a tall glass at his elbow, behind the folds of a sporting journal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  In the little glass above her dressing-table she saw her face reflected against the shadows of the room, and tears blotted the reflection.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  The analogy was justified by the appearance of the lady, whose large-eyed prettiness had the fixity of something impaled and shown under glass.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
8  She put out her hand, and measured the soothing drops into a glass; but as she did so, she knew they would be powerless against the supernatural lucidity of her brain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  And with a bright nod to the couple on whom she had intruded, Miss Bart strolled through the glass doors and carried her rustling grace down the long perspective of the garden walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  Near the bed stood a table holding her breakfast tray, with its harmonious porcelain and silver, a handful of violets in a slender glass, and the morning paper folded beneath her letters.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  In fact, when she looked at the other women about her, and recalled the image she had brought away from her own glass, it did not seem as though any special skill would be needed to repair her blunder and bring him once more to her feet.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  The faces about her flowed by like the streaming images of sleep: she hardly noticed where Selden was leading her, till they passed through a glass doorway at the end of the long suite of rooms and stood suddenly in the fragrant hush of a garden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
13  Lily was confident that the clerk would fill it without hesitation; yet the nervous dread of a refusal, or even of an expression of doubt, communicated itself to her restless hands as she affected to examine the bottles of perfume stacked on the glass case before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  Feeling no desire for the self-communion which awaited her in her room, she lingered on the broad stairway, looking down into the hall below, where the last card-players were grouped about the tray of tall glasses and silver-collared decanters which the butler had just placed on a low table near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3