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1  I didn't need to have anybody tell me I was losing ground every day.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
2  The cold was less sharp than earlier in the day and a thick fleecy sky threatened snow for the morrow.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
3  He said to himself: "This is Matt's last day," and tried to think what the place would be without her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
4  There was some hauling to be done at the lower end of the wood-lot, and Ethan was out early the next day.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
5  His face tingled and he felt dizzy, as if he had stopped in at the Starkfield saloon on a zero day for a drink.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
6  Ethan's arts were soon exhausted, and after an embarrassed pause he wished Hale good day and opened the door of the office.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
7  His mother had been a talker in her day, but after her "trouble" the sound of her voice was seldom heard, though she had not lost the power of speech.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
8  That which had seemed incredible in the sober light of day had really come to pass, and he was to assist as a helpless spectator at Mattie's banishment.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
9  He had hardly spoken when he remembered the excuse he had made for not accompanying his wife to the station the day before; and the blood rose to his frowning brows.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
10  Now these and all other tokens of her presence had vanished and the room looked as bare and comfortless as when Zeena had shown her into it on the day of her arrival.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
11  Ethan therefore proposed to his assistant that they should load the sledge at the wood-lot, as they had done on the previous morning, and put off the "teaming" to Starkfield till later in the day.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VI
12  His hard day's work in the keen air made him feel at once lazy and light of mood, and he had a confused sense of being in another world, where all was warmth and harmony and time could bring no change.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In V
13  He even crept down on Saturday nights to scrub the kitchen floor after the women had gone to bed; and Zeena, one day, had surprised him at the churn and had turned away silently, with one of her queer looks.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In I
14  As he passed the bridle over the horse's head, and wound the traces around the shafts, he remembered the day when he had made the same preparations in order to drive over and meet his wife's cousin at the Flats.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
15  He did his best to supplement her unskilled efforts, getting up earlier than usual to light the kitchen fire, carrying in the wood overnight, and neglecting the mill for the farm that he might help her about the house during the day.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In I
16  It was a fact that since Mattie Silver's coming he had taken to shaving every day; but his wife always seemed to be asleep when he left her side in the winter darkness, and he had stupidly assumed that she would not notice any change in his appearance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In I
17  When his wife first proposed that they should give Mattie an occasional evening out he had inwardly demurred at having to do the extra two miles to the village and back after his hard day on the farm; but not long afterward he had reached the point of wishing that Starkfield might give all its nights to revelry.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In I
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