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1 And I'm sure there is no truth in the horrid things people say; but she HAS been spending a great deal of money this winter.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
2 It was easier to think without those five figures dancing before her eyes; and she had a great deal of thinking to do before she slept.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
3 THEY'RE still in the elementary stage; an Italian Prince is a great deal more than a Prince to them, and they're always on the brink of taking a courier for one.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
4 And cousin Grace Van Osburgh accuses him of having had a very bad influence on Freddy, who left Harvard last spring, and has been a great deal with Ned ever since.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
5 He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
6 She did, at least, a great deal to adorn it; and as he watched the bright security with which she bore herself, he smiled to think that he should have fancied her in need of help.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
7 She was frightened and yet stimulated by the reserved force of resolution which she felt within herself: she saw it was going to be easier, a great deal easier, than she had imagined.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
8 It had always seemed to Selden that experience offered a great deal besides the sentimental adventure, yet he could vividly conceive of a love which should broaden and deepen till it became the central fact of life.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9 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.
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