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1  I couldn't bear to lie awake in my room till morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
2  She let her hand lie in his a moment, smiling up at him adorably.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3  Some one told me my father used to lie sleepless and think of horrors.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  He stood looking down on the sleeping face which seemed to lie like a delicate impalpable mask over the living lineaments he had known.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
5  She did not, however, propose to lie there prone, and Gerty's inspiration about the hats at once revived her hopes of profitable activity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  The luxury of lying late in bed was a pleasure belonging to the life of ease; it had no part in the utilitarian existence of the boarding-house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
7  In the cold slant of light reflected from the back wall of a neighbouring building, she saw her evening dress and opera cloak lying in a tawdry heap on a chair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
8  And so he had leisure to muse on all its exquisite details, as a hard worker, on a holiday morning, might lie still and watch the beam of light travel gradually across his room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  This was a relief to Mrs. Peniston, who could give herself up to her own symptoms, and Lily was advised to go and lie down, her aunt's panacea for all physical and moral disorders.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
10  The force of contrast gave an added keenness to the luxury of lying once more in a soft-pillowed bed, and looking across a spacious sunlit room at a breakfast-table set invitingly near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
11  Miss Bart, on the contrary, borne forward on the wave of her buoyant grace, and neither shrinking from her friends nor appearing to lie in wait for them, gave to the encounter the touch of naturalness which she could impart to the most strained situations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
12  As she entered her bedroom, with its softly-shaded lights, her lace dressing-gown lying across the silken bedspread, her little embroidered slippers before the fire, a vase of carnations filling the air with perfume, and the last novels and magazines lying uncut on a table beside the reading-lamp, she had a vision of Miss Farish's cramped flat, with its cheap conveniences and hideous wall-papers.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3