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1  With this intention, I turned and opened the panels.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Catherine was too intent on his fingers to notice his face.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  My master glanced towards the passage, and signed me to fetch the men: he had no intention of hazarding a personal encounter.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  I imagined, for a moment, that this piece of eloquence was addressed to me; and, sufficiently enraged, stepped towards the aged rascal with an intention of kicking him out of the door.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
5  I repented having tried this second entrance, and was almost inclined to slip away before he finished cursing, but ere I could execute that intention, he ordered me in, and shut and re-fastened the door.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  He surveyed the carved front and low-browed lattices, the straggling gooseberry-bushes and crooked firs, with solemn intentness, and then shook his head: his private feelings entirely disapproved of the exterior of his new abode.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  I was surprised to witness how coolly the child gathered himself up, and went on with his intention; exchanging saddles and all, and then sitting down on a bundle of hay to overcome the qualm which the violent blow occasioned, before he entered the house.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf-case, and dog-kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI