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1 The throng in the room had increased, and she felt a desire for space and fresh air.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
2 The other ladies had fallen back at her approach, and a space created itself about her.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
3 Mrs. Hatch and her friends seemed to float together outside the bounds of time and space.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
4 "There are such lots of horrors this morning," she added, clearing a space in the centre of the confusion and rising to yield her seat to Miss Bart.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
5 All through her troubled sleep she had been conscious of having no space to toss in, and the long effort to remain motionless made her feel as if she had spent her night in a train.
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6 It was a small group still, with heterogeneous figures suspended in large unpeopled spaces; but Lily did not take long to learn that its regulation was no longer in Mr. Stancy's hands.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
7 Lily had taken it, at first with the confidence of assured possessorship, then with gradually narrowing demands, till now she found herself actually struggling for a foothold on the broad space which had once seemed her own for the asking.
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8 The sudden escape from a stifling hotel in a dusty deserted city to the space and luxury of a great country-house fanned by sea breezes, had produced a state of moral lassitude agreeable enough after the nervous tension and physical discomfort of the past weeks.
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9 Ruling the turbulent element called home was the vigorous and determined figure of a mother still young enough to dance her ball-dresses to rags, while the hazy outline of a neutral-tinted father filled an intermediate space between the butler and the man who came to wind the clocks.
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