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1  Miss Bart's countenance did not reflect the smile.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  Miss Farish paused with a sigh which reflected the perplexity of her departing visitor.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
3  Perhaps it was not, Lily reflected; but it should be soon, unless she had lost her cunning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
4  "It's like being in church," she reflected, wondering vaguely where Gwen Stepney had got such an awful hat.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
5  She had paled a little under the shock of the insult, but the discomposure of the surrounding faces was not reflected in her own.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
6  In the little glass above her dressing-table she saw her face reflected against the shadows of the room, and tears blotted the reflection.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
7  In the little glass above her dressing-table she saw her face reflected against the shadows of the room, and tears blotted the reflection.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
8  Instantly came the reflection that Percy Gryce was not irretrievably lost; and she smiled to think of the excitement of recapturing him from Evie Van Osburgh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
9  In the cold slant of light reflected from the back wall of a neighbouring building, she saw her evening dress and opera cloak lying in a tawdry heap on a chair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
10  This gave her a sense of reflected superiority, and she did not need Mrs. Bart's comments on the family frumps and misers to foster her naturally lively taste for splendour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  But his greeting expressed no more than the satisfaction which every pretty woman expects to see reflected in masculine eyes; and the discovery, if distasteful to her vanity, was reassuring to her nerves.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  It was the strangest part of Lily's strange experience, the hearing of these names, the seeing the fragmentary and distorted image of the world she had lived in reflected in the mirror of the working-girls' minds.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
13  "I daresay it is true," she reflected; and her imagination was fired by the thought that Mr. Gryce, who might have sounded the depths of the most complex self-indulgence, was perhaps actually taking his first journey alone with a pretty woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
14  This impulse was reinforced by the reflection that if she had married Gryce she would have been surrounded by flattery and approval, whereas, having refused to sacrifice herself to expediency, she was left to bear the whole cost of her resistance.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
15  But Lily was not easily disconcerted; competition put her on her mettle, and she reflected that Selden's coming, if it did not declare him to be still in Mrs. Dorset's toils, showed him to be so completely free from them that he was not afraid of her proximity.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
16  Lily, well-versed in the language of these omissions, knew that they were equally intelligible to the other members of the party: even Rosedale, flushed as he was with the importance of keeping such company, at once took the temperature of Mrs. Trenor's cordiality, and reflected it in his off-hand greeting of Miss Bart.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
17  For this reason he had been especially pleased to learn that she would, as usual, attend the young Trenors to church on Sunday morning; and as he paced the gravel sweep before the door, his light overcoat on his arm and his prayer-book in one carefully-gloved hand, he reflected agreeably on the strength of character which kept her true to her early training in surroundings so subversive to religious principles.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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