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1 The words were hardly spoken when she realized their infelicity.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2 It is shocking that he has never been made to realize his duties as a citizen.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
3 Now he suddenly felt the latent ache, and realized that after all he had not come off unhurt.
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4 I don't realize that YOU are put to any expense except for your clothes and your railway fares.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5 She realized now that, as she sat in the restaurant, she had unconsciously arrived at a final decision.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
6 As she reached the street she realized that she felt stronger and happier: the little episode had done her good.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7 But she had not been ten minutes on her native shore before she realized that she had delayed too long to regain it.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
8 And the realization of this fact brought her recurringly face to face with the temptation to use the legacy in establishing her business.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9 She doesn't realize that it's Lily's beauty that does it: Lord Hubert tells me Lily is thought even handsomer than when he knew her at Aix ten years ago.
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10 Grace, in reply, wept and wondered at the request, bemoaned the inexorableness of the law, and was astonished that Lily had not realized the exact similarity of their positions.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
11 Regina's would enable her, when Mrs. Peniston's legacy was paid, to realize the vision of the green-and-white shop with the fuller competence acquired by her preliminary training.
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12 But he began with a pretence of questioning her about herself, and as she replied, she saw that, for the first time, a faint realization of her plight penetrated the dense surface of his self-absorption.
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13 She was realizing for the first time that a woman's dignity may cost more to keep up than her carriage; and that the maintenance of a moral attribute should be dependent on dollars and cents, made the world appear a more sordid place than she had conceived it.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15