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1 Someone has had the humanity to plant a few trees over there.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2 Mrs. Peniston thought the country lonely and trees damp, and cherished a vague fear of meeting a bull.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3 The row of budding trees, the new brick and limestone house-fronts, the Georgian flat-house with flowerboxes on its balconies, were merged together into the setting of a familiar scene.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
4 Higher up, the lane showed thickening tufts of fern and of the creeping glossy verdure of shaded slopes; trees began to overhang it, and the shade deepened to the checkered dusk of a beech-grove.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5 The boles of the trees stood well apart, with only a light feathering of undergrowth; the path wound along the edge of the wood, now and then looking out on a sunlit pasture or on an orchard spangled with fruit.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6 The path wound across a meadow with scattered trees; then it dipped into a lane plumed with asters and purpling sprays of bramble, whence, through the light quiver of ash-leaves, the country unrolled itself in pastoral distances.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7 Long garden-walls overhung by trees made a dark boundary to the pavement; an empty cab trailed along the deserted thoroughfare, and presently Selden saw two persons emerge from the opposite shadows, signal to the cab, and drive off in it toward the centre of the town.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 1