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1 Miss Bart had not revealed to Gerty the full extent of her anxiety.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
2 Mrs. Trenor's words were moreover emphasized for her hearer by anxieties which she herself could scarcely guess.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
3 Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
4 And now, as he turned away, strolling down the hill toward the station, that anxiety remained with him as the visible justification of his own.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
5 But I should be selfish and ungrateful if I made that a reason for accepting all you offer, with no better return to make than the desire to be free from my anxieties.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
6 The sudden and exquisite reaction from her anxieties had had the effect of throwing the recent past so far back that even Selden, as part of it, retained a certain air of unreality.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
7 A fire shone through the polished flanks of the iron stove, and near it stood a crib in which a baby was sitting upright, with incipient anxiety struggling for expression on a countenance still placid with sleep.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
8 The fact that her immediate anxieties were relieved did not blind her to a possibility of their recurrence; it merely gave her enough buoyancy to rise once more above her doubts and feel a renewed faith in her beauty, her power, and her general fitness to attract a brilliant destiny.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8