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1  Everybody but you could see it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
2  Zeena, I've done all I could for you, and I don't see as it's been any use.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
3  Well, she could go back to her people, then, and see what they would do for her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
4  It was so dark under the spruces that he could barely see the shape of her head beside his shoulder.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II
5  Ethan undressed hurriedly and blew out the light so that he should not see her when he took his place at her side.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
6  During the first months Ethan alternately burned with the desire to see Mattie defy her and trembled with fear of the result.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In III
7  She laughed at him for not knowing the simplest sick-bed duties and told him to "go right along out" and leave her to see to things.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
8  Beaming maternally on Ethan, she bent over to add: "I on'y just heard from Mr. Hale 'bout Zeena's going over to Bettsbridge to see that new doctor.'"
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
9  The doors of the two bedrooms faced each other across the narrow upper landing, and to-night it was peculiarly repugnant to him that Mattie should see him follow Zeena.
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10  Perhaps Zeena had failed to see the new doctor or had not liked his counsels: Ethan knew that in such cases the first person she met was likely to be held responsible for her grievance.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VI
11  She had an eye to see and an ear to hear: he could show her things and tell her things, and taste the bliss of feeling that all he imparted left long reverberations and echoes he could wake at will.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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12  Once, in the stillness, the call of a bird in a mountain ash was so like her laughter that his heart tightened and then grew large; and all these things made him see that something must be done at once.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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13  Zeena's native village was slightly larger and nearer to the railway than Starkfield, and she had let her husband see from the first that life on an isolated farm was not what she had expected when she married.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
14  So strange was the precision with which the incidents of the previous evening were repeating themselves that he half expected, when he heard the key turn, to see his wife before him on the threshold; but the door opened, and Mattie faced him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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15  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.
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16  A slight engineering job in Florida, put in his way during his period of study at Worcester, increased his faith in his ability as well as his eagerness to see the world; and he felt sure that, with a "smart" wife like Zeena, it would not be long before he had made himself a place in it.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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17  "I've got my shooting pains so bad that I'm going over to Bettsbridge to spend the night with Aunt Martha Pierce and see that new doctor," she answered in a matter-of-fact tone, as if she had said she was going into the store-room to take a look at the preserves, or up to the attic to go over the blankets.
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ContextHighlight   In III
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