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1  She blushed a little under his gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  He met Gerty Farish's brimming gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  She had turned to gaze on him gravely.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4  Miss Farish still fixed her with an anxious gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
5  Her lips trembled and her gaze widened with tears.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  Lily could not eat; but the tea strengthened her to rise and dress under her maid's searching gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
7  Her voice had dropped to a note of seriousness, and she sat gazing up at him with the troubled gravity of a child.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  He met this with a steady gaze of his small stock-taking eyes, which made her feel herself no more than some superfine human merchandise.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
9  She read, too, in his answering gaze the delicious confirmation of her triumph, and for the moment it seemed to her that it was for him only she cared to be beautiful.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  "It was no place for you, anyhow," he agreed, so suffused and immersed in the light of her full gaze that he found himself being drawn into strange depths of intimacy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  Mr. Bart sat motionless, his gaze still fixed on the salmon, and his lower jaw dropped; he looked even paler than usual, and his thin hair lay in untidy streaks on his forehead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  As she continued to gaze at it, she felt the glitter of the visions mounting to her brain, and after a while she lifted the lid of the desk and slipped the magic formula out of sight.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
13  She questioned him intelligently, she heard him submissively; and, prepared for the look of lassitude which usually crept over his listeners' faces, he grew eloquent under her receptive gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
14  They had been seated for some time in the seclusion of a rocky glen above the lake, when she suddenly cut short the culmination of an impassioned period by turning upon him the grave loveliness of her gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
15  Through the haze of her cigarette smoke she continued to gaze meditatively at Miss Bart, who, having dismissed her maid, sat before the toilet-table shaking out over her shoulders the loosened undulations of her hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
16  To Lily, always inspirited by the prospect of showing her beauty in public, and conscious tonight of all the added enhancements of dress, the insistency of Trenor's gaze merged itself in the general stream of admiring looks of which she felt herself the centre.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
17  Her small pale face seemed the mere setting of a pair of dark exaggerated eyes, of which the visionary gaze contrasted curiously with her self-assertive tone and gestures; so that, as one of her friends observed, she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
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