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1 Some were in small fragments, the others merely torn in half.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2 As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
3 She refused to pay the price named, and after a moment's hesitation, met it by a counter-offer of half the amount.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4 Her eyes fell on an illuminated clock at a street corner, and she saw that the hands marked the half hour after eleven.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
5 She was still half a mile from her destination, and she decided to walk across to Madison Avenue and take the electric car.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
6 No one, however, appeared to profit by the opportunity; and after a half hour of fruitless waiting she rose and wandered on.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7 Generally, however, Mrs. Bart and Lily went to Europe for the summer, and before the steamer was half way over Mr. Bart had dipped below the horizon.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8 On the Promenade des Anglais, where Ned Silverton hung on him for the half hour before dinner, he received a deeper impression of the general insecurity.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
9 At such moments of diminished interest it was usual for Mrs. Dorset to keep her room till the afternoon; but on this occasion she drifted in when luncheon was half over, hollowed-eyed and drooping, but with an edge of malice under her indifference.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 7