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House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
2 The autumn days declined to winter.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
3 She stood silent, gazing away from him down the autumnal stretch of the deserted lane.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
4 I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5 A deeper stillness possessed the air, and the glitter of the American autumn was tempered by a haze which diffused the brightness without dulling it.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6 There, while Mrs. Gormer plunged into problems of lighting and sanitation, Lily had leisure to wander, in the bright autumn air, along the tree-fringed bay to which the land declined.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
7 On the present occasion, however, a variety of reasons had combined to bring her to town; and foremost among them was the fact that she had fewer invitations than usual for the autumn.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
8 She could not remain at Bellomont without playing bridge, and being involved in other expenses; and to continue her usual series of autumn visits would merely prolong the same difficulties.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
9 Carry Fisher, on the strength, as she frankly owned, of the Brys' Newport success, had taken for the autumn months a small house at Tuxedo; and thither Lily was bound on the Sunday after Dorset's visit.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
10 It had been a bad autumn in Wall Street, where prices fell in accordance with that peculiar law which proves railway stocks and bales of cotton to be more sensitive to the allotment of executive power than many estimable citizens trained to all the advantages of self-government.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 11