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1  For his life he could not avert that excess of emotion: mingled anguish and humiliation overcame him completely.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  His adversary had fallen senseless with excessive pain and the flow of blood, that gushed from an artery or a large vein.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Catherine lay in a troubled sleep: her husband had succeeded in soothing the excess of frenzy; he now hung over her pillow, watching every shade and every change of her painfully expressive features.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
7  Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness; and he took a grim pleasure, apparently, in exciting the aversion rather than the esteem of his few acquaintances.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII