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1  While I admired and they laboured, dusk drew on, and with it returned the master.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  I relinquished my labour of agony, and turned consoled at once: unspeakably consoled.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  There was a labourer working at a fence round a plantation, on the borders of the grounds.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
4  He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, till Catherine crossed his path.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  It required a great deal of labour to satisfy the old man that Heathcliff was not the aggressor; especially with my hardly-wrung replies.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  He stood by the fire, his back towards me, just finishing a stormy scene with poor Zillah; who ever and anon interrupted her labour to pluck up the corner of her apron, and heave an indignant groan.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
8  He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other lad on the farm.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  Catherine and he were constant companions still at his seasons of respite from labour; but he had ceased to express his fondness for her in words, and recoiled with angry suspicion from her girlish caresses, as if conscious there could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII