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1  She put out her lamp, covered the fire, and went into her bedroom to undress.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  She dropped to the seat without answering, but the electric lamp at the bend of the path shed a gleam on the struggling misery of her face.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
4  They both laughed, and he knelt by the table to light the lamp under the kettle, while she measured out the tea into a little tea-pot of green glaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  Lily, turning her eyes from him, found herself scanning her little world through his retina: it was as though the pink lamps had been shut off and the dusty daylight let in.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  While he spoke she had moved slowly to the middle of the room, and paused near his writing-table, where the lamp, striking upward, cast exaggerated shadows on the pallour of her delicately-hollowed face.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
7  The green-shaded lamps made tranquil circles of light in the gathering dusk, a little fire flickered on the hearth, and Selden's easy-chair, which stood near it, had been pushed aside when he rose to admit her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
8  But then the wide September light had filled the room, making it seem a part of the outer world: now the shaded lamps and the warm hearth, detaching it from the gathering darkness of the street, gave it a sweeter touch of intimacy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
9  Mrs. Peniston disliked giving dinners, but she had a high sense of family obligation, and on the Jack Stepneys' return from their honeymoon she felt it incumbent upon her to light the drawing-room lamps and extract her best silver from the Safe Deposit vaults.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
10  She was too genuinely ignorant of the manipulations of the stock-market to understand his technical explanations, or even perhaps to perceive that certain points in them were slurred; the haziness enveloping the transaction served as a veil for her embarrassment, and through the general blur her hopes dilated like lamps in a fog.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7