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1  Her husband hardly heard what she was saying.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
2  He still had but a confused sense of what she was saying.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
3  The doctor says it'll be my death if I go on slaving the way I've had to.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
4  Her pleadings still came to him between short sobs, but he no longer heard what she was saying.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
5  "Jotham Powell's down in the wood-lot, and Dan'l Byrne says he darsn't leave that horse," she returned.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  "I felt a little mite better, and Dr. Buck says I ought to eat all I can to keep my strength up, even if I ain't got any appetite," she said in her flat whine, reaching across Mattie for the teapot.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
7  He had now no doubt that Zeena had spoken the truth in saying, the night before, that she had sat up because she felt "too mean" to sleep: her abrupt resolve to seek medical advice showed that, as usual, she was wholly absorbed in her health.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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8  She changed her position, leaning forward to bend her head above her work, so that he saw only the foreshortened tip of her nose and the streak of red in her hair; then she slipped to her feet, saying "I can't see to sew," and went back to her chair by the lamp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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9  I therefore confined myself to saying, in a matter-of-fact tone, that I had been received with great kindness, and that Frome had made a bed for me in a room on the ground-floor which seemed in happier days to have been fitted up as a kind of writing-room or study.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX