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1  I insisted on the funeral being respectable.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  The male speaker began to read: he was a young man, respectably dressed and seated at a table, having a book before him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  You will, perhaps, think the building old and dark at first; though it is a respectable house: the next best in the neighbourhood.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  They go the rounds of all the respectable houses, and receive contributions every Christmas, and we esteemed it a first-rate treat to hear them.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  I let him know that his cousin would very likely sit with us, and she had been always used to see the Sabbath respected; so he had as good leave his guns and bits of indoor work alone, while she stayed.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
6  Your brother will be pleased; the old lady and gentleman will not object, I think; you will escape from a disorderly, comfortless home into a wealthy, respectable one; and you love Edgar, and Edgar loves you.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  Catherine had seasons of gloom and silence now and then: they were respected with sympathising silence by her husband, who ascribed them to an alteration in her constitution, produced by her perilous illness; as she was never subject to depression of spirits before.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X