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1  The Wetheralls always went to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
2  She would have to go to church with Percy Gryce every Sunday.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  Ah, then I shall have to walk; I promised Hilda and Muriel to go to church with them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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4  The Van Osburgh marriage was celebrated in the village church near the paternal estate on the Hudson.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
5  It might have afforded him some consolation could he have known that Miss Bart had really meant to go to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  Miss Bart, accordingly, rose the next morning with the most earnest conviction that it was her duty to go to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  They would have a front pew in the most expensive church in New York, and his name would figure handsomely in the list of parish charities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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8  She had excused herself from the walk on the plea of a headache: the horrid headache which, in the morning, had prevented her venturing to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  The observance of Sunday at Bellomont was chiefly marked by the punctual appearance of the smart omnibus destined to convey the household to the little church at the gates.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  Lily had hinted to Mr. Gryce that this neglect of religious observances was repugnant to her early traditions, and that during her visits to Bellomont she regularly accompanied Muriel and Hilda to church.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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11  Two or three red farm-houses dozed under the apple-trees, and the white wooden spire of a village church showed beyond the shoulder of the hill; while far below, in a haze of dust, the high-road ran between the fields.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  These thoughts so engaged her that she fell into a gait hardly likely to carry her to church before the sermon, and at length, having passed from the gardens to the wood-path beyond, so far forgot her intention as to sink into a rustic seat at a bend of the walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  It was Mrs. Trenor's theory that her daughters actually did go to church every Sunday; but their French governess's convictions calling her to the rival fane, and the fatigues of the week keeping their mother in her room till luncheon, there was seldom any one present to verify the fact.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
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14  While these sylvan rites were taking place, in a church packed with fashion and festooned with orchids, the representatives of the press were threading their way, note-book in hand, through the labyrinth of wedding presents, and the agent of a cinematograph syndicate was setting up his apparatus at the church door.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
15  From the window in which they presently found themselves installed, they overlooked the intense blue curve of the harbour, set between the verdure of twin promontories: to the right, the cliff of Monaco, topped by the mediaeval silhouette of its church and castle, to the left the terraces and pinnacles of the gambling-house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
16  They had promised Lily to go to church with her, they declared, and Lily was such a dear old duck that they didn't mind doing it to please her, though they couldn't fancy what had put the idea in her head, and though for their own part they would much rather have played lawn tennis with Jack and Gwen, if she hadn't told them she was coming.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
17  For this reason he had been especially pleased to learn that she would, as usual, attend the young Trenors to church on Sunday morning; and as he paced the gravel sweep before the door, his light overcoat on his arm and his prayer-book in one carefully-gloved hand, he reflected agreeably on the strength of character which kept her true to her early training in surroundings so subversive to religious principles.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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