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1 He could never marry a girl who WASN'T nice.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8

2 She understood his motives, for her own course was guided by as nice calculations.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 2

3 And now do sit down a minute, there's a dear, and let's have a nice quiet jaw together.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13

4 It's too delightful of you to be so nice to him, and put up with all his tiresome stories.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8

5 I wish Lily were not so nice to Mr. Rosedale, but she says it's no use being rude to him, because he doesn't see the difference.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12

6 "Oh, Lily, that's nice of you," she merely sighed across the chaos of letters, bills and other domestic documents which gave an incongruously commercial touch to the slender elegance of her writing-table.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 4

7 The prospect of the nice quiet talk did not appear as all-sufficing to Trenor as she had hoped, and his brows continued to lower as he said: "Oh, I don't know that I can promise you a fresh tip every day."

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8

8 He, who had the reputation of weighing all things in the nice balance of fastidious perceptions, had been uncritical and simple in his view of her: his cleverness had never overawed her because she had felt at home in his heart.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14

9 There had been a germ of truth in his declaration to Gerty Farish that he had never wanted to marry a "nice" girl: the adjective connoting, in his cousin's vocabulary, certain utilitarian qualities which are apt to preclude the luxury of charm.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14