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1  My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  He had a right, of course, to do as he pleased: and yet a momentary damp is cast on the spirits by the receipt of such news.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  Probably those damp walls would soon have eased me of her charge: but to each villain his own vice; and mine is not a tendency to indirect assassination, even of what I most hate.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  I have just opened the window, to let in a little air and sunshine; for everything gets so damp in apartments that are seldom inhabited; the drawing-room yonder feels like a vault.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
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