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1  She had resolutely refused Gerty's offer of hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
2  Mrs. Fisher's measures had been well-taken, and society, surprised in a dull moment, succumbed to the temptation of Mrs. Bry's hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  It was one of the taxes she had to pay for their prolonged hospitality, and for the dresses and trinkets which occasionally replenished her insufficient wardrobe.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crowd.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
5  Her enjoyment of her surroundings was, indeed, tinged by the unpleasant consideration that she was accepting the hospitality and courting the approval of people she had disdained under other conditions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
6  Training and experience had taught her to be hospitable to newcomers, since the most unpromising might be useful later on, and there were plenty of available OUBLIETTES to swallow them if they were not.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
7  Fifth Avenue had become a nightly torrent of carriages surging upward to the fashionable quarters about the Park, where illuminated windows and outspread awnings betokened the usual routine of hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
8  The quality of Mrs. Bry's hospitality, and of the tips her husband had presumably imparted, lent to the manner of the English ladies a general effusiveness which shed the rosiest light over their hostess's future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
9  The few relatives who had stayed on, or returned, for the reading of Mrs. Peniston's will, had taken flight again that afternoon to Newport or Long Island; and not one of them had made any proffer of hospitality to Lily.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
10  She and her mother had been seated at the luncheon-table, over the CHAUFROIX and cold salmon of the previous night's dinner: it was one of Mrs. Bart's few economies to consume in private the expensive remnants of her hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  Their recently built house, whatever it might lack as a frame for domesticity, was almost as well-designed for the display of a festal assemblage as one of those airy pleasure-halls which the Italian architects improvised to set off the hospitality of princes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  To give up her apartment, and shrink to the obscurity of a boarding-house, or the provisional hospitality of a bed in Gerty Farish's sitting-room, was an expedient which could only postpone the problem confronting her; and it seemed wiser as well as more agreeable to remain where she was and find some means of earning her living.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8