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1  Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  You are sick; because the best of feelings, the highest and the sweetest given to man, keeps far away from you.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
3  Coming near, I found the door slightly ajar; probably to admit some fresh air into the close abode of sickness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was a thoughtful look; not despondent, for you were not sickly; but not buoyant, for you had little hope, and no actual pleasure.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  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
7  One reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was comparatively seldom at home: a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  St. John did not rebuke our vivacity; but he escaped from it: he was seldom in the house; his parish was large, the population scattered, and he found daily business in visiting the sick and poor in its different districts.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
9  Besides, there were fewer to feed; the sick could eat little; our breakfast-basins were better filled; when there was no time to prepare a regular dinner, which often happened, she would give us a large piece of cold pie, or a thick slice of bread and cheese, and this we carried away with us to the wood, where we each chose the spot we liked best, and dined sumptuously.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX