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1  He swore at her and seized another.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  I snatched it away, however, and seized his arm.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  A sudden impulse seized me to visit Thrushcross Grange.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  He was immediately seized by a suffocating cough that soon ended his triumph.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  He advanced direct to us, seized Linton by the arm, and swung him off the seat.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Heathcliff had knelt on one knee to embrace her; he attempted to rise, but she seized his hair, and kept him down.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  I seized the handle to essay another trial; when a young man without coat, and shouldering a pitchfork, appeared in the yard behind.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
9  He looked up, seized with a sort of surprise at her boldness; or, possibly, reminded, by her voice and glance, of the person from whom she inherited it.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  She would gladly have gathered it up at this information, but Hareton beat her; he seized and put it in his waistcoat, saying Mr. Heathcliff should look at it first.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
11  He sat within earshot, milking the cows by the light of a lantern, which I seized unceremoniously, and, calling out that I would send it back on the morrow, rushed to the nearest postern.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  Heathcliff, on the second thoughts, resolved to avoid a struggle against three underlings: he seized the poker, smashed the lock from the inner door, and made his escape as they tramped in.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  I spared a minute to open the gate for it, but instead of going to the house door, it coursed up and down snuffing the grass, and would have escaped to the road, had I not seized it and conveyed it in with me.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  He approached once more, and made as if he would seize the fragile being; but, shrinking back, Linton clung to his cousin, and implored her to accompany him, with a frantic importunity that admitted no denial.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  It was rather a rough mess, I own, when poured into the basins; four had been provided, and a gallon pitcher of new milk was brought from the dairy, which Hareton seized and commenced drinking and spilling from the expansive lip.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
16  He opened them suddenly, and resigned the object of dispute; but, ere she had well secured it, he seized her with the liberated hand, and, pulling her on his knee, administered with the other a shower of terrific slaps on both sides of the head, each sufficient to have fulfilled his threat, had she been able to fall.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII