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1  All his tenderness rushed to his lips.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  Words of resistance rushed to Ethan's lips and died there.
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3  Her hat had fallen into the snow and his lips were in her hair.
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4  Twice he opened his lips to speak to Mattie and found no breath.
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5  She put her lips close against his ear to say: "Right into the big elm."
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6  But since he had seen her lips in the lamplight he felt that they were his.
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7  All the while he felt as if he were still kissing her, and yet dying of thirst for her lips.
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8  Her lips, groping for his, swept over his face, and he held her fast in a rapture of surprise.
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9  She laughed with pleasure, her head tilted back, the lamplight sparkling on her lips and teeth.
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10  Mattie came forward, unwinding her wraps, the colour of the cherry scarf in her fresh lips and cheeks.
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11  If he lifted his eyes they rested on Zeena's pinched face, and the corners of her straight lips seemed to quiver away into a smile.
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12  As his lips rested on it he felt it glide slowly from beneath them, and saw that Mattie had risen and was silently rolling up her work.
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13  As he reached the door he met Zeena coming back into the room, her lips twitching with anger, a flush of excitement on her sallow face.
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14  Then, striking upward, it threw a lustrous fleck on her lips, edged her eyes with velvet shade, and laid a milky whiteness above the black curve of her brows.
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15  He dragged himself to his knees, the monstrous load on him moving with him as he moved, and his hand went over and over her face, and he felt that the twittering came from her lips.
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16  She clung to him without answering, and he laid his lips on her hair, which was soft yet springy, like certain mosses on warm slopes, and had the faint woody fragrance of fresh sawdust in the sun.
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17  As she passed down the line, her light figure swinging from hand to hand in circles of increasing swiftness, the scarf flew off her head and stood out behind her shoulders, and Frome, at each turn, caught sight of her laughing panting lips, the cloud of dark hair about her forehead, and the dark eyes which seemed the only fixed points in a maze of flying lines.
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