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1  He left Lily to a passion of disgust and fear.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
2  And since she had played regularly the passion had grown on her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  The immediate result of these conclusions was the passionate resolve to pay back her debt to Trenor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
4  She studied it with a kind of passion, as though it were some weapon she had slowly fashioned for her vengeance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  She could not put him before herself in any light but the noblest: she must trust him to the height of her own passion.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  "Yes: I know him; he will help you," she said; and in a moment Lily's passion was weeping itself out against her breast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  It was perhaps her very manner of holding herself aloof that appealed to his collector's passion for the rare and unattainable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
8  Old habits, old restraints, the hand of inherited order, plucked back the bewildered mind which passion had jolted from its ruts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
9  She would not indeed have cared to marry a man who was merely rich: she was secretly ashamed of her mother's crude passion for money.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  But something lived between them also, and leaped up in her like an imperishable flame: it was the love his love had kindled, the passion of her soul for his.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
11  Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  That was years ago, when she first came out, and had been smitten with a romantic passion for a young gentleman named Herbert Melson, who had blue eyes and a little wave in his hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
13  Her danger lay, as she knew, in her old incurable dread of discomfort and poverty; in the fear of that mounting tide of dinginess against which her mother had so passionately warned her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
14  Having passionately celebrated her reunion with her offspring, and excused herself in cryptic language for the lateness of her return, Nettie restored the baby to the crib and shyly invited Miss Bart to the rocking-chair near the stove.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
15  Their appearance confirmed the impression that the show had been staged regardless of expense, and emphasized its resemblance to one of those "costume-plays" in which the protagonists walk through the passions without displacing a drapery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
16  It was for a moment only, however; for when he leaned nearer and drew down her hands with a gesture less passionate than grave, she turned on him a face softened but not disfigured by emotion, and he said to himself, somewhat cruelly, that even her weeping was an art.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
17  She tried to excuse herself on the plea that, in the Trenor set, if one played at all one must either play high or be set down as priggish or stingy; but she knew that the gambling passion was upon her, and that in her present surroundings there was small hope of resisting it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
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