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1  At length she rose and dressed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
2  Molly didn't care for the bridesmaids' dresses.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
3  She saw that she had dressed her idol with attributes of her own making.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  The door opened, and Gerty, dressed and hatted, entered with a cup of tea.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  She dressed herself once more for the street, locked her door and went out.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
6  You're very kind, Judy: I'll lock up my cigarettes and wear that last year's dress you sent me this morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  She steadied herself with a laugh and drew back; but he was enveloped in the scent of her dress, and his shoulder had felt her fugitive touch.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
8  She put back the dresses one by one, laying away with each some gleam of light, some note of laughter, some stray waft from the rosy shores of pleasure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  A small spark was enough to kindle Lily's imagination, and the sight of the grey dress and the borrowed prayer-book flashed a long light down the years.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  It was one of the taxes she had to pay for their prolonged hospitality, and for the dresses and trinkets which occasionally replenished her insufficient wardrobe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  Mrs. Trenor's summons, however, suddenly recalled her state of dependence, and she rose and dressed in a mood of irritability that she was usually too prudent to indulge.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  The company, in obedience to the decorative instinct which calls for fine clothes in fine surroundings, had dressed rather with an eye to Mrs. Bry's background than to herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
13  She belonged to the class of old New Yorkers who have always lived well, dressed expensively, and done little else; and to these inherited obligations Mrs. Peniston faithfully conformed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  In fact I can't afford any of the things my friends do, and I am afraid Judy often thinks me a bore because I don't play cards any longer, and because I am not as smartly dressed as the other women.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
16  The remaining dresses, though they had lost their freshness, still kept the long unerring lines, the sweep and amplitude of the great artist's stroke, and as she spread them out on the bed the scenes in which they had been worn rose vividly before her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
17  Once or twice of late she had won a large sum, and instead of keeping it against future losses, had spent it in dress or jewelry; and the desire to atone for this imprudence, combined with the increasing exhilaration of the game, drove her to risk higher stakes at each fresh venture.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
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