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1  Selden met this appeal with a laugh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  The latter's eyes widened charmingly and she broke into a light laugh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  He received this with a laugh like the whirring sound in a disabled clock.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
4  He felt a slight shiver down his spine as he ventured this, but her laugh reassured him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  "I mean to have her too," he repeated, with a laugh intended to strengthen his self-assurance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
6  "I don't see any way of making him see it," Lily returned, with a laugh intended to dismiss the subject.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
7  "Well, I understand Lily is about to assume them in the shape of Mr. Rosedale," Mrs. Fisher said with a laugh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  Lily's smile again flowed into a slight laugh: her friend's importunity was beginning to strike her as irrelevant.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
9  But the attempt had hitherto been vain, and as Rosedale undoubtedly paid for the dinners, the laugh remained with his debtor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
10  She took this in what seemed the only possible way, with a laugh intended to sink the question itself in his humorous treatment of it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
11  He had the dull man's unexpected flashes of astuteness, and Lily could not help joining in the laugh with which he had pounced on the truth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
12  Then he gave a short laugh, and drew out a gold cigarette-case, in which, with plump jewelled fingers, he groped for a gold-tipped cigarette.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
13  She steadied herself with a laugh and drew back; but he was enveloped in the scent of her dress, and his shoulder had felt her fugitive touch.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
14  It was the unconscious prolongation of this thought which led her to say presently, with a laugh: "I have broken two engagements for you today."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
15  The laugh was so strange that Lily coloured under it: she disliked being ridiculed, and her father seemed to see something ridiculous in the request.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
16  And as Lily stared at the breathless suddenness of the suggestion, she continued with her easy laugh: "You don't know them and they don't know you; but that don't make a rap of difference."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
17  To listen to his stories, to receive his confidences and laugh at his jokes, seemed for the moment all that was required of her, and the complacency with which her hostess regarded these attentions freed them of the least hint of ambiguity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
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