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1  His words caused Gerty a slight chill of disappointment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
2  With his last gust of words the flame had died out, leaving him chill and humbled.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
3  The revelation of this suddenly-established intimacy effectually chilled his desire to see her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
4  But her confession would have to be postponed; and the chill of the delay settled heavily on her fagged spirit.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  A chill of fear passed over Miss Bart: a sense of remembered treachery that was like the gleam of a knife in the dusk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
6  It was the first time she had ever come across the results of her spasmodic benevolence, and the surprised sense of human fellowship took the mortal chill from her heart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7  The change had struck Mrs. Fisher as a rejuvenation: to Selden it seemed like that moment of pause and arrest when the warm fluidity of youth is chilled into its final shape.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
8  For a clever man it was certainly a stupid beginning; and the idea that his awkwardness was due to the fear of her attaching a personal significance to his visit, chilled her pleasure in seeing him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
9  In the woody hollows of the park there was already a faint chill; but as the ground rose the air grew lighter, and ascending the long slopes beyond the high-road, Lily and her companion reached a zone of lingering summer.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  Lily walked up Fifth Avenue toward the Park, hoping to find a sheltered nook where she might sit; but the wind chilled her, and after an hour's wandering under the tossing boughs she yielded to her increasing weariness, and took refuge in a little restaurant in Fifty-ninth Street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
11  Lily, who had a vague sense of his being somehow connected with her lucky speculations, tried to give him the welcome he expected; but there was something in the quality of his geniality which chilled her own, and she was conscious of marking each step in their acquaintance by a fresh blunder.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
12  There was not the least trace of embarrassment in his voice, and as he spoke, leaning slightly against the jamb of the window, and letting his eyes rest on her in the frank enjoyment of her grace, she felt with a faint chill of regret that he had gone back without an effort to the footing on which they had stood before their last talk together.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8