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1  My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
2  You must try to love him, as you did your mother, and then he will love you.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly than Edgar tended her.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  I should be in a curious taking if I surrendered my heart to that young person, and the daughter turned out a second edition of the mother.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  You may also tell him that the mother of Linton desired him to remain under my guardianship; and, at present, his health is very precarious.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Fortunately its mother died before the time arrived; some thirteen years after the decease of Catherine, when Linton was twelve, or a little more.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
7  Even you, Nelly, if we have a dispute sometimes, you back Isabella at once; and I yield like a foolish mother: I call her a darling, and flatter her into a good temper.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
9  And then she cried, and took a little picture from her neck, and said I should have that; two pictures in a gold case, on one side her mother, and on the other uncle, when they were young.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
10  The little one was always Cathy: it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet a connection with her; and his attachment sprang from its relation to her, far more than from its being his own.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  That capacity for intense attachments reminded me of her mother: still she did not resemble her: for she could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce: it was deep and tender.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  My young lady gave him several looks, as if she could not exactly make up her mind what to think of him; but now he smiled when he met her eye, and softened his voice in addressing her; and I was foolish enough to imagine the memory of her mother might disarm him from desiring her injury.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I