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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 She glanced over it, and handed it to Mary.
2 I now glanced sideways at this piece of architecture.
3 Give one glance to my horrible life when you are gone.
4 I well remembered all; language, glance, and tone seemed at the moment vividly renewed.
5 He bent his head a little towards me, and with a single hasty glance seemed to dive into my eyes.
6 He now furtively raised his eyes: he glanced at me, irresolute, disturbed: he again surveyed the picture.
7 I wanted to see the invisible thing on which, as we went along, he appeared to fasten a glance fierce and fell.
8 Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed.
9 The moon was set, and it was very dark; Bessie carried a lantern, whose light glanced on wet steps and gravel road sodden by a recent thaw.
10 Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed.
11 Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realisation of my dream: but I was presently undeserved.
12 Sinking below the bird and mast, a drowned corpse glanced through the green water; a fair arm was the only limb clearly visible, whence the bracelet had been washed or torn.
13 I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close-set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
14 This ruddy shine issued from the great dining-room, whose two-leaved door stood open, and showed a genial fire in the grate, glancing on marble hearth and brass fire-irons, and revealing purple draperies and polished furniture, in the most pleasant radiance.
15 Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.
16 The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking.
17 I then sat with my doll on my knee till the fire got low, glancing round occasionally to make sure that nothing worse than myself haunted the shadowy room; and when the embers sank to a dull red, I undressed hastily, tugging at knots and strings as I best might, and sought shelter from cold and darkness in my crib.
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