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1  Lily flushed under the shadow of her drooping hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
2  Mrs. Bart stood over him with a white face which made her hair unnaturally yellow.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  As Lily turned, and settled to completer rest, a strand of her hair swept Gerty's cheek with its fragrance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  Her grey hair was arranged with precision, and her clothes looked excessively new and yet slightly old-fashioned.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  Some of 'em have long hair, and they start an argument with the soup, and don't notice when things are handed to them.'
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
6  Her face looked sallow and swollen in the dreary light, and her dull hair shaded imperceptibly into the tones of her skin.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
7  She had a broad sallow face, slightly pitted with small-pox, and thin straw-coloured hair through which her scalp shone unpleasantly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  The glare of the unshaded gas shone familiarly on her pock-marked face and the reddish baldness visible through thin strands of straw-coloured hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
9  Mr. Bart sat motionless, his gaze still fixed on the salmon, and his lower jaw dropped; he looked even paler than usual, and his thin hair lay in untidy streaks on his forehead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  His face, with its tossed red hair and straggling moustache, had a driven uneasy look, as though life had become an unceasing race between himself and the thoughts at his heels.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
11  That was years ago, when she first came out, and had been smitten with a romantic passion for a young gentleman named Herbert Melson, who had blue eyes and a little wave in his hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  As she sat before the mirror brushing her hair, her face looked hollow and pale, and she was frightened by two little lines near her mouth, faint flaws in the smooth curve of the cheek.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  Even to the eyes of infancy, Mrs. Hudson Bart had appeared young; but Lily could not recall the time when her father had not been bald and slightly stooping, with streaks of grey in his hair, and a tired walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  Through the haze of her cigarette smoke she continued to gaze meditatively at Miss Bart, who, having dismissed her maid, sat before the toilet-table shaking out over her shoulders the loosened undulations of her hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
15  On the crimson carpet a deer-hound and two or three spaniels dozed luxuriously before the fire, and the light from the great central lantern overhead shed a brightness on the women's hair and struck sparks from their jewels as they moved.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
16  She had seen the Wetheralls, the Trenor girls and Lady Cressida packed safely into the omnibus; Judy Trenor was sure to be having her hair shampooed; Carry Fisher had doubtless carried off her host for a drive; Ned Silverton was probably smoking the cigarette of young despair in his bedroom; and Kate Corby was certain to be playing tennis with Jack Stepney and Miss Van Osburgh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
17  A brilliant Miss Smedden from Brooklyn showed to perfection the sumptuous curves of Titian's Daughter, lifting her gold salver laden with grapes above the harmonizing gold of rippled hair and rich brocade, and a young Mrs. Van Alstyne, who showed the frailer Dutch type, with high blue-veined forehead and pale eyes and lashes, made a characteristic Vandyck, in black satin, against a curtained archway.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
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