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1  The glow of the stones warmed Lily's veins like wine.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2  In the foreground glowed the warm tints of the gardens.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4  In the rosy glow it diffused her companions seemed full of amiable qualities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
5  A faint glow of returning strength seemed to pass into Lily from the pressure of the supporting arm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
6  And Mrs. Trenor, glowing with her sex's eagerness to smooth the course of true love, enveloped Lily in a long embrace.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  She returned to town in a glow of rejuvenation, conscious of a clearer colour in her cheeks, a fresh elasticity in her muscles.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
8  She had not known again till today that lightness, that glow of freedom; but now it was something more than a blind groping of the blood.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  Lily's blush deepened to a glow in which humiliation and gratitude were mingled; and both sentiments revealed themselves in the unexpected gentleness of her reply.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
10  In its glow Mrs. Dorset and the Stepneys were also visibly included, and the whole scene had touches of intimacy worth their weight in gold to the watchful pen of Mr. Dabham.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
11  No one, for instance, could have made a more typical Goya than Carry Fisher, with her short dark-skinned face, the exaggerated glow of her eyes, the provocation of her frankly-painted smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  As Miss Bart reached the avenue, however, she saw a smart phaeton with a high-stepping pair disappear behind the shrubbery in the direction of the gate; and on the doorstep stood Mrs. Gormer, with a glow of retrospective pleasure on her open countenance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
13  Miss Bart, glowing with the haste of a precipitate descent upon the train, headed a group composed of the Dorsets, young Silverton and Lord Hubert Dacey, who had barely time to spring into the carriage, and envelop Selden in ejaculations of surprise and welcome, before the whistle of departure sounded.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
14  All the secret ambitions which Mrs. Gormer's native indolence, and the attitude of her companions, kept in habitual abeyance, were now germinating afresh in the glow of Bertha's advances; and whatever the cause of the latter, Lily saw that, if they were followed up, they were likely to have a disturbing effect upon her own future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6