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1  She had hated dinginess, and it was her fate to be dingy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
2  It stood for one of the many hated possibilities hovering on the edge of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  But on her bed sleep would not come, and she lay face to face with the fact that she hated Lily Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  I went straight to Judy Trenor; she has fewer prejudices than the others, and besides she's always hated Bertha Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5  Even under the most adverse conditions, that pleasure always made itself felt: she might hate him, but she had never been able to wish him out of the room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
6  Baseness for baseness, she hated the other least: there were even moments when a marriage with Rosedale seemed the only honourable solution of her difficulties.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
7  If she had destroyed Mrs. Dorset's letters, she might have continued to hate her; but the fact that they remained in her possession had fed her resentment to satiety.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
8  I was only saying," Lily began, "that I hate to see faded flowers at luncheon; and mother says a bunch of lilies-of-the-valley would not cost more than twelve dollars.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
9  You're hard on me, Aunt Julia: I have never really cared for cards, but a girl hates to be thought priggish and superior, and one drifts into doing what the others do.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
10  The consciousness increased her irritation against Rosedale, but also her feeling that now, if ever, was the moment to propitiate him, hateful as it was to do so in Selden's presence.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
11  She lay late in bed, refusing the coffee and fried eggs which the friendly Irish servant thrust through her door, and hating the intimate domestic noises of the house and the cries and rumblings of the street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
12  For the first time she forced herself to reckon up the exact amount of her debt to Trenor; and the result of this hateful computation was the discovery that she had, in all, received nine thousand dollars from him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
13  The day's task done, she dreaded to return to her narrow room, with its blotched wallpaper and shabby paint; and she hated every step of the walk thither, through the degradation of a New York street in the last stages of decline from fashion to commerce.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  She knew that she hated dinginess as much as her mother had hated it, and to her last breath she meant to fight against it, dragging herself up again and again above its flood till she gained the bright pinnacles of success which presented such a slippery surface to her clutch.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  You've told me so little that I can only guess what has been happening; but in the rush we all live in there's no time to keep on hating any one without a cause, and if Bertha is still nasty enough to want to injure you with other people it must be because she's still afraid of you.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6