1 I must pay a visit to the second storey.
2 Mr. Lloyd a second time produced his snuff-box.
3 I established one for boys: I mean now to open a second school for girls.
4 Its second rising displayed a more elaborately prepared scene than the last.
5 He lifted the hangings from the wall, uncovering the second door: this, too, he opened.
6 , shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
7 She answered it with a second laugh, and laughter well became her youth, her roses, her dimples, her bright eyes.
8 Thanks being returned for what we had not got, and a second hymn chanted, the refectory was evacuated for the schoolroom.
9 The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze.
10 On the first of these occasions, she perpetrated the attempt to burn me in my bed; on the second, she paid that ghastly visit to you.
11 A pause of some seconds succeeded, filled up by the low, vague hum of numbers; Miss Miller walked from class to class, hushing this indefinite sound.
12 The wind fell, for a second, round Thornfield; but far away over wood and water, poured a wild, melancholy wail: it was sad to listen to, and I ran off again.
13 I only entertained the intention for a moment; for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second.
14 Helen she held a little longer than me: she let her go more reluctantly; it was Helen her eye followed to the door; it was for her she a second time breathed a sad sigh; for her she wiped a tear from her cheek.
15 As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.
16 The new face, too, was like a new picture introduced to the gallery of memory; and it was dissimilar to all the others hanging there: firstly, because it was masculine; and, secondly, because it was dark, strong, and stern.
17 A stand between them supported a second candle and two great volumes, to which they frequently referred, comparing them, seemingly, with the smaller books they held in their hands, like people consulting a dictionary to aid them in the task of translation.
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