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1  The very quality of his love had made it the more impossible to recall to life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
2  That walk she did not mean to miss; one glance at the bills on her writing-table was enough to recall its necessity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
3  His words recalled the vision of that other afternoon when they had sat together over his tea-table and talked jestingly of her future.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
4  Lily could not recall the time when there had been money enough, and in some vague way her father seemed always to blame for the deficiency.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
5  Mrs. Trenor's summons, however, suddenly recalled her state of dependence, and she rose and dressed in a mood of irritability that she was usually too prudent to indulge.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
6  She had not talked with Dorset since their visit at Bellomont, but something in his look and manner told her that he recalled the friendly footing on which they had last met.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7  Even to the eyes of infancy, Mrs. Hudson Bart had appeared young; but Lily could not recall the time when her father had not been bald and slightly stooping, with streaks of grey in his hair, and a tired walk.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
8  In fact, when she looked at the other women about her, and recalled the image she had brought away from her own glass, it did not seem as though any special skill would be needed to repair her blunder and bring him once more to her feet.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  Miss Stepney was not sufficiently familiar with the classic drama to have recalled in advance how bearers of bad tidings are proverbially received, but she now had a rapid vision of forfeited dinners and a reduced wardrobe as the possible consequence of her disinterestedness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
10  It was one of those still November days when the air is haunted with the light of summer, and something in the lines of the landscape, and in the golden haze which bathed them, recalled to Miss Bart the September afternoon when she had climbed the slopes of Bellomont with Selden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
11  If Lily recalled this early emotion it was not to compare it with that which now possessed her; the only point of comparison was the sense of lightness, of emancipation, which she remembered feeling, in the whirl of a waltz or the seclusion of a conservatory, during the brief course of her youthful romance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
12  She could never afterward recall how long the duel lasted, or what was the decisive stroke which finally, after a lapse of time recorded in minutes by the clock, in hours by the precipitate beat of her pulses, put her in possession of the letters; she knew only that the door had finally closed, and that she stood alone with the packet in her hand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9