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1  The words roused Selden from the musing fit into which he had fallen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  Lily felt for these objects the same distaste which the prisoner may entertain for the fittings of the court-room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
3  He knew he should have to go slowly, and the instincts of his race fitted him to suffer rebuffs and put up with delays.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
4  They were always black and tightly fitting, with an expensive glitter: she was the kind of woman who wore jet at breakfast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  She could not acquire the air of doing things because she wanted to, and making her choice the final seal of their fitness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  The scenes were taken from old pictures, and the participators had been cleverly fitted with characters suited to their types.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  She was beginning to have fits of angry rebellion against fate, when she longed to drop out of the race and make an independent life for herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  And it had suddenly occurred to her that Rosedale, who had surprised Trenor's confidence, was the fitting person to receive and transmit her version of the facts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  Outside, the sky was gusty and overcast, and as Lily and Selden moved toward the deserted gardens below the restaurant, spurts of warm rain blew fitfully against their faces.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
10  If one did drag one's self out of bed at such an hour, and come down fresh and radiant to the monotony of note-writing, some special recognition of the sacrifice seemed fitting.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  The blinds of Mrs. Peniston's drawing-room were drawn down against the oppressive June sun, and in the sultry twilight the faces of her assembled relatives took on a fitting shadow of bereavement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
13  He was a plump rosy man of the blond Jewish type, with smart London clothes fitting him like upholstery, and small sidelong eyes which gave him the air of appraising people as if they were bric-a-brac.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  Suddenly it struck him that his silence must seem almost as accusatory as that of the men he had despised for turning from her; but before he could find the fitting word she had cut him short with a question.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
15  The fact that her immediate anxieties were relieved did not blind her to a possibility of their recurrence; it merely gave her enough buoyancy to rise once more above her doubts and feel a renewed faith in her beauty, her power, and her general fitness to attract a brilliant destiny.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
16  In the centre of the table, between the melting MARRONS GLACES and candied cherries, a pyramid of American Beauties lifted their vigorous stems; they held their heads as high as Mrs. Bart, but their rose-colour had turned to a dissipated purple, and Lily's sense of fitness was disturbed by their reappearance on the luncheon-table.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
17  When they were in the sitting-room again, where they fitted as snugly as bits in a puzzle, and she had brewed the coffee, and poured it into her grandmother's egg-shell cups, his eye, as he leaned back, basking in the warm fragrance, lighted on a recent photograph of Miss Bart, and the desired transition was effected without an effort.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
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