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1  I think our women are much handsomer.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
2  Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
3  They would have a front pew in the most expensive church in New York, and his name would figure handsomely in the list of parish charities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
4  She doesn't realize that it's Lily's beauty that does it: Lord Hubert tells me Lily is thought even handsomer than when he knew her at Aix ten years ago.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  In her set such gossip was not unusual, and a handsome girl who flirted with a married man was merely assumed to be pressing to the limit of her opportunities.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
6  It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
7  She had suffered for the very faithfulness with which she had carried out her part of the tacit compact, but the part was not a handsome one at best, and she saw it now in all the ugliness of failure.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
8  Trenor and Miss Bart prolonged their drive till long after sunset; and before it was over he had tried, with some show of success, to prove to her that, if she would only trust him, he could make a handsome sum of money for her without endangering the small amount she possessed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
9  The spot was charming, and Lily was not insensible to the charm, or to the fact that her presence enhanced it; but she was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company, and the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  Other young ladies of fashion had been thus "set-up," selling their hats by the mere attraction of a name and the reputed knack of tying a bow; but these privileged beings could command a faith in their powers materially expressed by the readiness to pay their shop-rent and advance a handsome sum for current expenses.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  She accordingly installed herself in the Madison Avenue house, and Percy, whose sense of duty was not inferior to his mother's, spent all his week days in the handsome Broad Street office where a batch of pale men on small salaries had grown grey in the management of the Gryce estate, and where he was initiated with becoming reverence into every detail of the art of accumulation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2