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1  He is quite broken down, they say.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  Classes were broken up, rules relaxed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  I tried again to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously: my inward tranquillity was broken.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  I began to cherish hopes I had no right to conceive: that the match was broken off; that rumour had been mistaken; that one or both parties had changed their minds.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  Even when that weather was broken, and continuous rain set in for some days, no damp seemed cast over enjoyment: indoor amusements only became more lively and varied, in consequence of the stop put to outdoor gaiety.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp, the air cold: besides, intruders passed near me more than once, and I had again and again to change my quarters; no sense of safety or tranquillity befriended me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
9  I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind: a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears; no sooner had I wiped one salt drop from my cheek than another followed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
10  It trembled for Mr. Rochester and his doom; it bemoaned him with bitter pity; it demanded him with ceaseless longing; and, impotent as a bird with both wings broken, it still quivered its shattered pinions in vain attempts to seek him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
11  The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
12  My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II