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1  Her ambitions were not as crude as Mrs. Bart's.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
2  She lay awake viewing her situation in the crude light which Rosedale's visit had shed on it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
3  She would not indeed have cared to marry a man who was merely rich: she was secretly ashamed of her mother's crude passion for money.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  The crude forms in which her friends took their pleasure included a loud enjoyment of such complications: the zest of surprising destiny in the act of playing a practical joke.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  Lily had thus formed, in the tumult of her surroundings, a little nucleus of friendly relations which mitigated the crudeness of her course in lingering with the Gormers after their return.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
6  Of the ladies, this left only Mrs. Dorset unaccounted for, and Mrs. Dorset never came down till luncheon: her doctors, she averred, had forbidden her to expose herself to the crude air of the morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  His real detachment from her had taken place, not at the lurid moment of disenchantment, but now, in the sober after-light of discrimination, where he saw her definitely divided from him by the crudeness of a choice which seemed to deny the very differences he felt in her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3