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1  He rubbed his eyes and went to the window.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
2  Ethan was standing near the window, mechanically filling his pipe while he watched Mattie move to and fro.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  Down the side wall facing the window stood a row of kitchen chairs from which the older women had just risen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  Zeena always went to bed as soon as she had had her supper, and the shutterless windows of the house were dark.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  Then she recrossed the floor and lifted two of the geranium pots in her arms, moving them away from the cold window.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  The face she lifted to her dancers was the same which, when she saw him, always looked like a window that has caught the sunset.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  One cold winter morning, as he dressed in the dark, his candle flickering in the draught of the ill-fitting window, he had heard her speak from the bed behind him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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8  The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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9  Thence, still hugging the shadow, he edged his way cautiously forward to the nearest window, holding back his straight spare body and craning his neck till he got a glimpse of the room.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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10  She drank two cups of coffee and fed the cat with the scraps left in the pie-dish; then she rose from her seat and, walking over to the window, snipped two or three yellow leaves from the geraniums.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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11  The room was almost dark, but in the obscurity he saw her sitting by the window, bolt upright, and knew by the rigidity of the outline projected against the pane that she had not taken off her travelling dress.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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12  The sun slanted through the south window on the girl's moving figure, on the cat dozing in a chair, and on the geraniums brought in from the door-way, where Ethan had planted them in the summer to "make a garden" for Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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13  The dancers were going faster and faster, and the musicians, to keep up with them, belaboured their instruments like jockeys lashing their mounts on the home-stretch; yet it seemed to the young man at the window that the reel would never end.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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14  The moon had set, but the night was so transparent that the white house-fronts between the elms looked gray against the snow, clumps of bushes made black stains on it, and the basement windows of the church sent shafts of yellow light far across the endless undulations.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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15  She sat opposite the window, and the pale light reflected from the banks of snow made her face look more than usually drawn and bloodless, sharpened the three parallel creases between ear and cheek, and drew querulous lines from her thin nose to the corners of her mouth.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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