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1  Any one may serve: I have served here eight years; now all I want is to serve elsewhere.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  Any one may serve: I have served here eight years; now all I want is to serve elsewhere.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  She was really hungry, so the chicken and tarts served to divert her attention for a time.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  I have dismissed, with the fee of an orange, the little orphan who serves me as a handmaid.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  I impressed it on my heart, that it might remain there to serve me as aid in the time of trial.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
6  I trust, Jane, you are in earnest when you say you will serve your heart to God: it is all I want.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  The saying might have worn out of my memory, had not a circumstance immediately followed which served indelibly to fix it there.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  But I was determined not to seem at a loss for occupation or amusement: I had brought my drawing materials with me, and they served me for both.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  I took that dear hand, held it a moment to my lips, then let it pass round my shoulder: being so much lower of stature than he, I served both for his prop and guide.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our ordinary meals, was served round between the services.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  And there is another thing which surprised me; I find, in settling accounts with the housekeeper, that a lunch, consisting of bread and cheese, has twice been served out to the girls during the past fortnight.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
13  I must be served at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round stand with my cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II