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1  Mr. Gryce's sensations, if less definite, were equally agreeable.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
2  Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  The sensation made her brain reel, and she tried to shut out consciousness by pressing her hands against her eyes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
4  In his own mind there was only a lazy sense of pleasure, veiling the sharp edges of sensation as the September haze veiled the scene at their feet.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  To prolong her enjoyment of the sensation she decided to walk; but the distance was so great that she found herself glancing nervously at the clocks on the way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
6  The thought of the ridicule struck deeper than any other sensation: Lily knew every turn of the allusive jargon which could flay its victims without the shedding of blood.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
7  Each of them wants a creature of a different race, of Jack's race and mine, with all sorts of intuitions, sensations and perceptions that they don't even guess the existence of.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
8  Lily had no real intimacy with nature, but she had a passion for the appropriate and could be keenly sensitive to a scene which was the fitting background of her own sensations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  Gathering up her skirts, she drew aside with an impatient gesture; and as she did so she had the odd sensation of having already found herself in the same situation but in different surroundings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
10  She had even felt a momentary exhilaration at the thought of thus relieving herself of her detested secret; but the sensation gradually faded in the telling, and as she ended her pallour was suffused with a deep blush of misery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
11  She had refrained from touching it because it was a last resource, and she had relied on other arts to stimulate other sensations; but as a settled look of dulness began to creep over his candid features, she saw that extreme measures were necessary.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
12  A startled look ran from eye to eye; Mrs. Bry crimsoned to the verge of congestion, Mrs. Stepney slipped nervously behind her husband, and Selden, in the general turmoil of his sensations, was mainly conscious of a longing to grip Dabham by the collar and fling him out into the street.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3