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1  He had been walking fast about the room, and he stopped, as if suddenly rooted to one spot.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  From the wild stringy root of human uprightness, she has reared a due sense of the Divine justice.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  She went into the house; I stayed behind a few minutes to plant in my garden a handful of roots I had dug up in the forest, and which I feared would wither if I left them till the morning.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Not valuing now the root whence it sprang; having found that it was of a sort which nothing but gold dust could manure, I have but half a liking to the blossom, especially when it looks so artificial as just now.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  Here and there I strayed through the orchard, gathered up the apples with which the grass round the tree roots was thickly strewn; then I employed myself in dividing the ripe from the unripe; I carried them into the house and put them away in the store-room.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I