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1 In silence they mounted the three flights, and walked along the passage to a closed door.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
2 Miss Bart released her, and stood breathing brokenly, like one who has gained shelter after a long flight.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3 But gradually the captive's gasps grew fainter, or the other paid less heed to them: the horizon expanded, the air grew stronger, and the free spirit quivered for flight.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4 The implication that such loyalty would meet with a direct reward had hastened her flight, and flung her back, ashamed and penitent, on the broad bosom of Gerty's sympathy.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5 She leaned on him for a moment, as if with a drop of tired wings: he felt as though her heart were beating rather with the stress of a long flight than the thrill of new distances.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6 He who had had to subsist on mere fugitive glances, looks winged in flight and swiftly lost under covert, now found her eyes settling on him with a brooding intensity that fairly dazzled him.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7 The few relatives who had stayed on, or returned, for the reading of Mrs. Peniston's will, had taken flight again that afternoon to Newport or Long Island; and not one of them had made any proffer of hospitality to Lily.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
8 The importunate memory was kept before her by its ironic contrast to her present situation, since her walk with Selden had represented an irresistible flight from just such a climax as the present excursion was designed to bring about.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
9 It seemed to him necessary, at that moment, to proclaim, by some habitual gesture of this sort, his recovered hold on the actual: he had an almost puerile wish to let his companion see that, their flight over, he had landed on his feet.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6