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1  Lily had grown pale: her voice had a harsh note in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  She met this with a pale gleam of her old playfulness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
3  Lily had risen, and stood pale and quivering before her aunt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  The hall was arcaded, with a gallery supported on columns of pale yellow marble.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  Mr. Bry, a short pale man, with a business face and leisure clothes, met the dilemma hilariously.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
6  Mrs. Dorset was pale with temper, and her antagonist felt a certain pleasure in prolonging her distress.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  Gerty lifted an apprehensive look to her pale face, in which the eyes shone with a peculiar sleepless lustre.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
8  She remained long in her sitting-room, where the embers were crumbling to cold grey, and the lamp paled under its gay shade.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
9  He had come on her that morning in a moment of disarray; her face had been pale and altered, and the diminution of her beauty had lent her a poignant charm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  Nor was she without pale glimpses of her own world, especially since the breaking-up of the Newport season had set the social current once more toward Long Island.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
11  Her pale draperies, and the background of foliage against which she stood, served only to relieve the long dryad-like curves that swept upward from her poised foot to her lifted arm.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  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 Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  Overhead hung a summer sky furrowed with the rush of rockets; and from the east a late moon, pushing up beyond the lofty bend of the coast, sent across the bay a shaft of brightness which paled to ashes in the red glitter of the illuminated boats.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
14  Her small pale face seemed the mere setting of a pair of dark exaggerated eyes, of which the visionary gaze contrasted curiously with her self-assertive tone and gestures; so that, as one of her friends observed, she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
15  The purpling waters drew a sharp white line of foam at the base of the shore; against its irregular eminences, hotels and villas flashed from the greyish verdure of olive and eucalyptus; and the background of bare and finely-pencilled mountains quivered in a pale intensity of light.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
16  She accordingly installed herself in the Madison Avenue house, and Percy, whose sense of duty was not inferior to his mother's, spent all his week days in the handsome Broad Street office where a batch of pale men on small salaries had grown grey in the management of the Gryce estate, and where he was initiated with becoming reverence into every detail of the art of accumulation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
17  A brilliant Miss Smedden from Brooklyn showed to perfection the sumptuous curves of Titian's Daughter, lifting her gold salver laden with grapes above the harmonizing gold of rippled hair and rich brocade, and a young Mrs. Van Alstyne, who showed the frailer Dutch type, with high blue-veined forehead and pale eyes and lashes, made a characteristic Vandyck, in black satin, against a curtained archway.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
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