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1  Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  Lily's eyes did not falter, but a look of wonder, of puzzled self-interrogation, formed itself slowly in their depths.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
3  There was nothing new to Lily in these tokens of a studied luxury; but, though they formed a part of her atmosphere, she never lost her sensitiveness to their charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  His habitual touch was that of the eclectic, who lightly turns over and compares; and she was moved by this sudden glimpse into the laboratory where his faiths were formed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  The crude forms in which her friends took their pleasure included a loud enjoyment of such complications: the zest of surprising destiny in the act of playing a practical joke.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6  Lily had thus formed, in the tumult of her surroundings, a little nucleus of friendly relations which mitigated the crudeness of her course in lingering with the Gormers after their return.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
7  But keenest of all was the exhilaration of displaying her own beauty under a new aspect: of showing that her loveliness was no mere fixed quality, but an element shaping all emotions to fresh forms of grace.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
8  But she was growing less sensitive on such points: a hard glaze of indifference was fast forming over her delicacies and susceptibilities, and each concession to expediency hardened the surface a little more.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
9  She knew that this generosity to self is one of the forms of meanness, and she resolved so to identify herself with her husband's vanity that to gratify her wishes would be to him the most exquisite form of self-indulgence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
10  Mrs. Peniston, however, was at the moment inaccessible to remonstrance: since early morning she had been shut up with her maid, going over her furs, a process which formed the culminating episode in the drama of household renovation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
11  But this lingering semblance of intimacy made her only the more conscious of a change in the relation between Mattie and herself, of a dawning discrimination, a gradually formed social standard, emerging from Mrs. Gormer's chaotic view of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
12  She understood clearly enough that, even if she could ever learn to compete with hands formed from childhood for their special work, the small pay she received would not be a sufficient addition to her income to compensate her for such drudgery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
13  Once, however, she had had a special edition of the Sarum Rule printed in rubric and presented to every clergyman in the diocese; and the gilt album in which their letters of thanks were pasted formed the chief ornament of her drawing-room table.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
14  It was he who had selected the horses with which she had taken the blue ribbon at the Show, had introduced her to the photographer whose portraits of her formed the recurring ornament of "Sunday Supplements," and had got together the group which constituted her social world.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9