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1  She had come abroad with the Welly Brys at the moment when fashion flees the inclemency of the New York spring.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
2  She studied it with a kind of passion, as though it were some weapon she had slowly fashioned for her vengeance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  He took another cross street, and without breasting the throng on the Promenade, made his way to the fashionable club which overlooks that thoroughfare.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
4  Her parents too had been rootless, blown hither and thither on every wind of fashion, without any personal existence to shelter them from its shifting gusts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
5  Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
6  Mrs. Hatch swam in a haze of indeterminate enthusiasms, of aspirations culled from the stage, the newspapers, the fashion journals, and a gaudy world of sport still more completely beyond her companion's ken.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
7  It was inevitable that Lily herself should constitute the first sacrifice to this new ideal, and she knew that, once the Gormers were established in town, the whole drift of fashionable life would facilitate Mattie's detachment from her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
8  In response to these claims, his name began to figure on municipal committees and charitable boards; he appeared at banquets to distinguished strangers, and his candidacy at one of the fashionable clubs was discussed with diminishing opposition.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
9  Jack gave up the contest with a laughing "You'll see," and, sticking manfully to his guns, showed himself with Rosedale at the fashionable restaurants, in company with the personally vivid if socially obscure ladies who are available for such purposes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
10  The day's task done, she dreaded to return to her narrow room, with its blotched wallpaper and shabby paint; and she hated every step of the walk thither, through the degradation of a New York street in the last stages of decline from fashion to commerce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  In Mrs. Peniston's youth, fashion had returned to town in October; therefore on the tenth day of the month the blinds of her Fifth Avenue residence were drawn up, and the eyes of the Dying Gladiator in bronze who occupied the drawing-room window resumed their survey of that deserted thoroughfare.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
12  Even fortunes supposed to be independent of the market either betrayed a secret dependence on it, or suffered from a sympathetic affection: fashion sulked in its country houses, or came to town incognito, general entertainments were discountenanced, and informality and short dinners became the fashion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
13  Their own faces were sallow with the unwholesomeness of hot air and sedentary toil, rather than with any actual signs of want: they were employed in a fashionable millinery establishment, and were fairly well clothed and well paid; but the youngest among them was as dull and colourless as the middle-aged.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  While these sylvan rites were taking place, in a church packed with fashion and festooned with orchids, the representatives of the press were threading their way, note-book in hand, through the labyrinth of wedding presents, and the agent of a cinematograph syndicate was setting up his apparatus at the church door.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
15  Other young ladies of fashion had been thus "set-up," selling their hats by the mere attraction of a name and the reputed knack of tying a bow; but these privileged beings could command a faith in their powers materially expressed by the readiness to pay their shop-rent and advance a handsome sum for current expenses.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
16  The hotel being on the edge of a fashionable neighbourhood, the price of the few square feet she was to occupy was considerably in excess of her means; but she found a justification for her dislike of poorer quarters in the argument that, at this particular juncture, it was of the utmost importance to keep up a show of prosperity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
17  Instances of young lady-milliners establishing themselves under fashionable patronage, and imparting to their "creations" that indefinable touch which the professional hand can never give, had flattered Gerty's visions of the future, and convinced even Lily that her separation from Mrs. Norma Hatch need not reduce her to dependence on her friends.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
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