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1 She paused before the mantelpiece, studying herself in the mirror while she adjusted her veil.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2 Mrs. Bry's admiration was a mirror in which Lily's self-complacency recovered its lost outline.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
3 She rose, and walking across the floor stood gazing at herself for a long time in the brightly-lit mirror above the mantel-piece.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4 She was before the mirror again, adjusting her hair with a light hand, drawing down her veil, and giving a dexterous touch to her furs.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
5 As she sat before the mirror brushing her hair, her face looked hollow and pale, and she was frightened by two little lines near her mouth, faint flaws in the smooth curve of the cheek.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
6 It was the strangest part of Lily's strange experience, the hearing of these names, the seeing the fragmentary and distorted image of the world she had lived in reflected in the mirror of the working-girls' minds.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7 She had always been a looker-on at life, and her mind resembled one of those little mirrors which her Dutch ancestors were accustomed to affix to their upper windows, so that from the depths of an impenetrable domesticity they might see what was happening in the street.
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