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1  The mention of Selden's name had started a new train of thought.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
2  They would welcome her in a new character, but as Miss Bart they knew her by heart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
3  Her grey hair was arranged with precision, and her clothes looked excessively new and yet slightly old-fashioned.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
4  It seems she goes to a new man in Paris, who won't take an order till his client has spent a day with him at his villa at Neuilly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  She had again addressed herself to the shelves, but her eyes now swept them inattentively, and he saw that she was preoccupied with a new idea.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
6  Mr. Gryce was new to such manifestations; he wondered rather nervously if she were delicate, having far-reaching fears about the future of his progeny.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  "I've got a few new things," he said, suffused with pleasure, but lowering his voice as though he feared his fellow-passengers might be in league to despoil him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
8  There was nothing new to Lily in these tokens of a studied luxury; but, though they formed a part of her atmosphere, she never lost her sensitiveness to their charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  They stood silent for a while after this, smiling at each other like adventurous children who have climbed to a forbidden height from which they discover a new world.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  Miss Bart was a keen reader of her own heart, and she saw that her sudden preoccupation with Selden was due to the fact that his presence shed a new light on her surroundings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
11  She leaned on him for a moment, as if with a drop of tired wings: he felt as though her heart were beating rather with the stress of a long flight than the thrill of new distances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  She had decided to defer the purchase of the dressing-case till she should receive the bill for her new opera-cloak, and the resolve made her feel much richer than when she had entered the shop.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
13  She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
14  There were moments when she longed blindly for anything different, anything strange, remote and untried; but the utmost reach of her imagination did not go beyond picturing her usual life in a new setting.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
15  Her aunt's words had told her nothing new; but they had revived the vision of Bertha Dorset, smiling, flattered, victorious, holding her up to ridicule by insinuations intelligible to every member of their little group.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
16  There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
17  Lily felt a new interest in herself as a person of charitable instincts: she had never before thought of doing good with the wealth she had so often dreamed of possessing, but now her horizon was enlarged by the vision of a prodigal philanthropy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
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