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1 The forewoman was right: the sewing on of the spangles was inexcusably bad.
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2 Miss Bart, I guess you can sew those spangles on as well as I can when you're feeling right.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
3 Lily had taken up her work early in January: it was now two months later, and she was still being rebuked for her inability to sew spangles on a hat-frame.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4 She began to rip the spangles from the frame, listening absently to the buzz of talk which rose and fell with the coming and going of Miss Haines's active figure.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
5 The boles of the trees stood well apart, with only a light feathering of undergrowth; the path wound along the edge of the wood, now and then looking out on a sunlit pasture or on an orchard spangled with fruit.
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6 This was one of the moments when the sense of contrast was uppermost, and she turned away impatiently as Mrs. George Dorset, glittering in serpentine spangles, drew Percy Gryce in her wake to a confidential nook beneath the gallery.
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7 In the whole work-room there was only one skin beneath which the blood still visibly played; and that now burned with vexation as Miss Bart, under the lash of the forewoman's comment, began to strip the hat-frame of its over-lapping spangles.
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