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1  She, supposing Edgar could not see her, snatched the cloth from my hand, and pinched me, with a prolonged wrench, very spitefully on the arm.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  I could; and I bit my lip in spite, at having thrown away the chance I might have had of doing something besides staring at its smiting beauty.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
3  And now that she is vanished to her rest, and I have meditated for another hour or two, I shall summon courage to go also, in spite of aching laziness of head and limbs.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  He talked now, freely enough; and she presently saw fit to retreat to her solitude: but the frost had set in, and, in spite of her pride, she was forced to condescend to our company, more and more.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  The household went to bed; and I, too, anxious to lie down, opened my lattice and put my head out to hearken, though it rained: determined to admit them in spite of the prohibition, should they return.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  He spoke these words, holding the door open for his son to pass, and the latter achieved his exit exactly as a spaniel might which suspected the person who attended on it of designing a spiteful squeeze.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  And he stared hard at the object of discourse, as one might do at a strange repulsive animal: a centipede from the Indies, for instance, which curiosity leads one to examine in spite of the aversion it raises.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X