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1  Not a bad purchase for Rosedale, though: attracts attention, and awes the Western sight-seer.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  Grace Stepney's mind was like a kind of moral fly-paper, to which the buzzing items of gossip were drawn by a fatal attraction, and where they hung fast in the toils of an inexorable memory.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
3  It was as though the sense in her of unexplained scruples and resistances had the same attraction as the delicacy of feature, the fastidiousness of manner, which gave her an external rarity, an air of being impossible to match.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
4  He would never have dared to order it for himself, lest he should attract the notice of his fellow-passengers; but, secure in the shelter of her conspicuousness, he sipped the inky draught with a delicious sense of exhilaration.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
5  The mere fact of growing richer at a time when most people's investments are shrinking, is calculated to attract envious attention; and according to Wall Street rumours, Welly Bry and Rosedale had found the secret of performing this miracle.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
6  Once installed, and in command of her own work-women, she believed she had sufficient tact and ability to attract a fashionable CLIENTELE; and if the business succeeded she could gradually lay aside money enough to discharge her debt to Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  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 Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
8  In Miss Bart's world the Horse Show, and the public it attracted, had ostensibly come to be classed among the spectacles disdained of the elect; but, as the feudal lord might sally forth to join in the dance on his village green, so society, unofficially and incidentally, still condescended to look in upon the scene.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
9  Other young ladies of fashion had been thus "set-up," selling their hats by the mere attraction of a name and the reputed knack of tying a bow; but these privileged beings could command a faith in their powers materially expressed by the readiness to pay their shop-rent and advance a handsome sum for current expenses.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
10  His reputed cultivation was generally regarded as a slight obstacle to easy intercourse, but Lily, who prided herself on her broad-minded recognition of literature, and always carried an Omar Khayam in her travelling-bag, was attracted by this attribute, which she felt would have had its distinction in an older society.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6