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1  I held him till the fit exhausted itself.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  Hindley and I held it a favourite spot twenty years before.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  She laughed, and held me down; for I made a motion to leave my chair.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  He leant against the side, and held his fingers on the latch as if intending to open for himself.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Heathcliff held both bridles as they rode on, and they set their faces from the village, and went as fast as the rough roads would let them.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Trembling and bewildered, she held me fast, but the horror gradually passed from her countenance; its paleness gave place to a glow of shame.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  She gazed concernedly at the dusky fingers she held in her own, and also at her dress; which she feared had gained no embellishment from its contact with his.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  Her cousin, after watching her endeavours a while, at last summoned courage to help her; she held her frock, and he filled it with the first that came to hand.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
9  Catherine perceived, as well as I did, that he held it rather a punishment, than a gratification, to endure our company; and she made no scruple of proposing, presently, to depart.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  The delirium was not fixed, however; having weaned her eyes from contemplating the outer darkness, by degrees she centred her attention on him, and discovered who it was that held her.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  I did not feel as if I were in the company of a creature of my own species: it appeared that he would not understand, though I spoke to him; so I stood off, and held my tongue, in great perplexity.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  He endeavoured to pronounce the name, but could not manage it; and compressing his mouth he held a silent combat with his inward agony, defying, meanwhile, my sympathy with an unflinching, ferocious stare.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  On one side of the road rose a high, rough bank, where hazels and stunted oaks, with their roots half exposed, held uncertain tenure: the soil was too loose for the latter; and strong winds had blown some nearly horizontal.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
14  I leant forward also, for the purpose of signing to Heathcliff, whose step I recognised, not to come further; and, at the instant when my eye quitted Hareton, he gave a sudden spring, delivered himself from the careless grasp that held him, and fell.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  An instant they held asunder, and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace from which I thought my mistress would never be released alive: in fact, to my eyes, she seemed directly insensible.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
16  She held her hand interposed between the furnace-heat and her eyes, and seemed absorbed in her occupation; desisting from it only to chide the servant for covering her with sparks, or to push away a dog, now and then, that snoozled its nose overforwardly into her face.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
17  I held no communication with him: still, I was conscious of his design to enter, if he could; and on the Tuesday, a little after dark, when my master, from sheer fatigue, had been compelled to retire a couple of hours, I went and opened one of the windows; moved by his perseverance to give him a chance of bestowing on the faded image of his idol one final adieu.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
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