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1  The words rose to her lips spontaneously.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
2  His own met it slowly, and their lips touched.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  Her lips trembled and her gaze widened with tears.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  "Ah," said Mrs. Peniston, shutting her lips with the snap of a purse closing against a beggar.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  Miss Bart caught the startled glance of Mr. Percy Gryce, whose own lips were never defiled by tobacco.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
6  She took one with an unsteady hand, and putting it to her lips, leaned forward to draw her light from his.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  She sat quiet, her lips parted by the stress of the ascent, her eyes wandering peacefully over the broken ranges of the landscape.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  Besides, in her set all the men and women called each other by their Christian names; it was only on Trenor's lips that the familiar address had an unpleasant significance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
10  He offered the box, and she took out three or four cigarettes, putting one between her lips and slipping the others into a little gold case attached to her long pearl chain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
11  Miss Bart felt an inward motion of annoyance: it was distasteful enough to hear her name coupled with Trenor's, and on Rosedale's lips the allusion was peculiarly unpleasant.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
12  There was but one bed in the little flat, and the two girls lay down on it side by side when Gerty had unlaced Lily's dress and persuaded her to put her lips to the warm tea.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
13  It was here that her aunt received her rare confidences, and the pink-eyed smirk of the turbaned Beatrice was associated in her mind with the gradual fading of the smile from Mrs. Peniston's lips.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
14  The dark pencilling of fatigue under her eyes, the morbid blue-veined pallour of the temples, brought out the brightness of her hair and lips, as though all her ebbing vitality were centred there.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
15  Trenor had turned away, and his companion continued to stand before Miss Bart, alert and expectant, his lips parted in a smile at whatever she might be about to say, and his very back conscious of the privilege of being seen with her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
16  If there were compensating qualities in her wide frank glance and the freshness of her smile, these were qualities which only the sympathetic observer would perceive before noticing that her eyes were of a workaday grey and her lips without haunting curves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
17  Lily, with the flavour of Selden's caravan tea on her lips, had no great fancy to drown it in the railway brew which seemed such nectar to her companion; but, rightly judging that one of the charms of tea is the fact of drinking it together, she proceeded to give the last touch to Mr. Gryce's enjoyment by smiling at him across her lifted cup.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
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