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1  Mrs. Fisher, moreover, had no embarrassing curiosity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
2  Mrs. Fisher continued to probe her embarrassment with an unflinching eye.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
3  "I do mean that; Gerty told me of it," Selden acknowledged without embarrassment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4  As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5  Miss Bart could shudder at this state of things without the embarrassment of a personal application.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  She waited, and Rosedale, congested with embarrassment, muttered that he remembered something of the kind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  She paused with a slight falter of embarrassment, and Trenor, turning abruptly, fixed on her a look of growing intelligence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
8  She had the art of giving self-confidence to the embarrassed, but she was not equally sure of being able to embarrass the self-confident.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
9  The truth was that her funds, as usual, were inconveniently low; and to neither Dorset nor his wife could this vulgar embarrassment be safely hinted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
10  She glanced shyly at Lily, asking in an embarrassed tone how she felt; Lily answered with the same constraint, and raised herself up to drink the tea.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
11  Such embarrassment as was shown was on Mrs. Trenor's side, and manifested itself in the mingling of exaggerated warmth with imperceptible reservations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
12  There was nothing specific in this apprehension; he merely wished to spare her the embarrassment of being ever so remotely connected with the public washing of the Dorset linen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
13  Her self-absorption had not allowed her to perceive it at first; but now that her consciousness was once more putting forth its eager feelers, she saw that her presence was becoming an embarrassment to him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
14  Her embarrassment was increased by the fact that Freddy seemed to regard her as cooperating with himself in the social development of Mrs. Hatch: a view that suggested, on his part, a permanent interest in the lady's future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
15  Selden's entrance had caused Lily an inward start of embarrassment; but his air of constraint had the effect of restoring her self-possession, and she took at once the tone of surprise and pleasure, wondering frankly that he should have traced her to so unlikely a place, and asking what had inspired him to make the search.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
16  She was too genuinely ignorant of the manipulations of the stock-market to understand his technical explanations, or even perhaps to perceive that certain points in them were slurred; the haziness enveloping the transaction served as a veil for her embarrassment, and through the general blur her hopes dilated like lamps in a fog.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
17  There was not the least trace of embarrassment in his voice, and as he spoke, leaning slightly against the jamb of the window, and letting his eyes rest on her in the frank enjoyment of her grace, she felt with a faint chill of regret that he had gone back without an effort to the footing on which they had stood before their last talk together.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
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