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1  I started on her some months ago; and she's getting on like a house on fire.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
2  In the house I'm not let do a hand's turn for myself: somebody else must do it and touch me for it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
3  I care for life, for humanity; and you are a part of it that has come my way and been built into my house.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
4  When she consulted them, Higgins declined to be bothered about her housing problem when that solution was so simple.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
5  Eliza's desire to have Freddy in the house with her seemed of no more importance than if she had wanted an extra piece of bedroom furniture.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
6  Your daughter had the audacity to come to my house and ask me to teach her how to speak properly so that she could get a place in a flower-shop.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
7  Her drawing-room, in a flat on Chelsea embankment, has three windows looking on the river; and the ceiling is not so lofty as it would be in an older house of the same pretension.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
8  At intimate ducal dinners he sat on the right hand of the Duchess; and in country houses he smoked in the pantry and was made much of by the butler when he was not feeding in the dining-room and being consulted by cabinet ministers.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V