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1  My strength sufficed for but short answers.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  It was yet night, but July nights are short: soon after midnight, dawn comes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  He drew his breath short, and strained me so close to him, I could scarcely pant.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  She again put her short black pipe to her lips, and renewed her smoking with vigour.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  In short, I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other spoony.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  However, to please her, I allowed Sophie to apparel her in one of her short, full muslin frocks.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
11  She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
12  I made some attempts to draw her into conversation, but she seemed a person of few words: a monosyllabic reply usually cut short every effort of that sort.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  The best fun was with Madame Joubert: Miss Wilson was a poor sickly thing, lachrymose and low-spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing, in short; and Mrs. Grey was coarse and insensible; no blow took effect on her.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  I felt the impression of woe as she spoke, but I could not tell whence it came; and when, having done speaking, she breathed a little fast and coughed a short cough, I momentarily forgot my own sorrows to yield to a vague concern for her.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  In the course of the afternoon and evening these hints were enlarged on: various soft conversations were reported, and sentimental scenes represented; and, in short, a volume of a novel of fashionable life was that day improvised by her for my benefit.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
16  A dress of rose-coloured satin, very short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stockings and small white satin sandals.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
17  Even when we finally retired for the night, the inevitable Miss Gryce was still my companion: we had only a short end of candle in our candlestick, and I dreaded lest she should talk till it was all burnt out; fortunately, however, the heavy supper she had eaten produced a soporific effect: she was already snoring before I had finished undressing.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
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