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1  The lock gave way and I issued out.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  I rose to follow, but he turned the lock again.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  Heathcliff had opened the trinket and cast out its contents, replacing them by a black lock of his own.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  He had his hand in her hair; Hareton attempted to release her locks, entreating him not to hurt her that once.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
5  In stretching to pull them, her hat fell off; and as the door was locked, she proposed scrambling down to recover it.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
6  When he came, and I requested admittance and tried to open the door, I found it locked; and Heathcliff bid us be damned.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  Her pretty face was wan and listless; her hair uncurled: some locks hanging lankly down, and some carelessly twisted round her head.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
8  The last glimpse I caught of him was a furious rush on his part, checked by the embrace of his host; and both fell locked together on the hearth.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  I obeyed the hint; but Mrs. Linton, suspecting something, followed; and when I attempted to call them, she pulled me back, slammed the door to, and locked it.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  I did not fear her breaking bounds; because the gates were generally locked, and I thought she would scarcely venture forth alone, if they had stood wide open.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  This bed is the fairy cave under Penistone crags, and you are gathering elf-bolts to hurt our heifers; pretending, while I am near, that they are only locks of wool.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  Heathcliff, on the second thoughts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tramped in.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  Her present countenance had a wild vindictiveness in its white cheek, and a bloodless lip and scintillating eye; and she retained in her closed fingers a portion of the locks she had been grasping.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  I closed the door, and rolled a stone to assist the loosened lock in holding it; and spreading my umbrella, I drew my charge underneath: for the rain began to drive through the moaning branches of the trees, and warned us to avoid delay.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  My curiosity and suspicions were roused; I determined to take a peep at her mysterious treasures; so, at night, as soon as she and my master were safe upstairs, I searched, and readily found among my house keys one that would fit the lock.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
16  An instant they held asunder, and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace from which I thought my mistress would never be released alive: in fact, to my eyes, she seemed directly insensible.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
17  I did not call her unfeeling long; for I perceived she was in purgatory throughout the day, and wearying to find an opportunity of getting by herself, or paying a visit to Heathcliff, who had been locked up by the master: as I discovered, on endeavouring to introduce to him a private mess of victuals.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
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