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1  Lily shook her head with a charming semblance of regret.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2  She leaned forward with a shade of perplexity in her charming eyes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3  "It was horrid of me to say that of Gerty," she said with charming compunction.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  She held out her hand with a charming gesture in which dismissal was shorn of its rigour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  In the first place she was alone, and it would be charming for her to have a young companion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
6  His father was the kind of man who delights in a charming woman: who quotes her, stimulates her, and keeps her perennially charming.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  The indication was a slight one, and a year ago Lily would have smiled at it, trusting to the charm of her personality to dispel any prejudice against her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
8  The peculiar charm of her feeling for Selden was that she understood it; she could put her finger on every link of the chain that was drawing them together.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  Now it had been Selden's fate to have a charming mother: her graceful portrait, all smiles and Cashmere, still emitted a faded scent of the undefinable quality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  There was nothing new to Lily in these tokens of a studied luxury; but, though they formed a part of her atmosphere, she never lost her sensitiveness to their charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  Lily could remember when young Silverton had stumbled into their circle, with the air of a strayed Arcadian who has published charming sonnets in his college journal.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  Here was, after all, something that her charming listless hands could really do; she had no doubt of their capacity for knotting a ribbon or placing a flower to advantage.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  Lost causes had a romantic charm for her, and she liked to picture herself as standing aloof from the vulgar press of the Quirinal, and sacrificing her pleasure to the claims of an immemorial tradition.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  The spot was charming, and Lily was not insensible to the charm, or to the fact that her presence enhanced it; but she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company, and the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
16  The spot was charming, and Lily was not insensible to the charm, or to the fact that her presence enhanced it; but she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company, and the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
17  Mrs. Bry's TABLEAUX wanted none of the qualities which go to the producing of such illusions, and under Morpeth's organizing hand the pictures succeeded each other with the rhythmic march of some splendid frieze, in which the fugitive curves of living flesh and the wandering light of young eyes have been subdued to plastic harmony without losing the charm of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
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