1 They had often made her very unhappy.
2 She made an awkward, imperious little bow as she went in.
3 Mrs. Pontellier made them carry her paints and things into the house.
4 They stopped, leaning over a jagged fence made of sea-drift, to ask for water.
5 A clean-shaved face made the resemblance more pronounced than it would otherwise have been.
6 It was situated at the top of the house, made up of odd angles and a queer, sloping ceiling.
7 The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
8 The mosquitoes made merry over her, biting her firm, round arms and nipping at her bare insteps.
9 He had been unwilling to go to bed and had made a scene; whereupon she had taken charge of him and pacified him as well as she could.
10 You made one mistake, Adele," he said, with a light smile; "there is no earthly possibility of Mrs. Pontellier ever taking me seriously.
11 She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft-spoken was he.
12 Another time she might have made an effort to regain her composure; but her one thought was to quit the stifling atmosphere of the church and reach the open air.
13 First of all, the sight of the water stretching so far away, those motionless sails against the blue sky, made a delicious picture that I just wanted to sit and look at.
14 But with more feeling and discernment he would have recognized the noble beauty of its modeling, and the graceful severity of poise and movement, which made Edna Pontellier different from the crowd.
15 The walk to the beach was no inconsiderable one, consisting as it did of a long, sandy path, upon which a sporadic and tangled growth that bordered it on either side made frequent and unexpected inroads.
16 She could speak no English, but when Robert made her understand that the lady who accompanied him was ill and desired to rest, she was all eagerness to make Edna feel at home and to dispose of her comfortably.
17 It made Edna laugh, and she laughed, too, at the portrait in his first long trousers; while another interested her, taken when he left for college, looking thin, long-faced, with eyes full of fire, ambition and great intentions.
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