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1 It seems to me the sense of splendour has justified itself by what it has produced.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2 Now she was beginning to chafe at the obligations it imposed, to feel herself a mere pensioner on the splendour which had once seemed to belong to her.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3 This gave her a sense of reflected superiority, and she did not need Mrs. Bart's comments on the family frumps and misers to foster her naturally lively taste for splendour.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4 It was now past midnight, and the throng on the stands was dispersing, while the long trails of red-lit boats scattered and faded beneath a sky repossessed by the tranquil splendour of the moon.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5 The seated throng, filling the immense room without undue crowding, presented a surface of rich tissues and jewelled shoulders in harmony with the festooned and gilded walls, and the flushed splendours of the Venetian ceiling.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
6 It was a keen satisfaction to feel that, for a few months at least, she would be independent of her friends' bounty, that she could show herself abroad without wondering whether some penetrating eye would detect in her dress the traces of Judy Trenor's refurbished splendour.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7 Through this atmosphere of torrid splendour moved wan beings as richly upholstered as the furniture, beings without definite pursuits or permanent relations, who drifted on a languid tide of curiosity from restaurant to concert-hall, from palm-garden to music-room, from "art exhibit" to dress-maker's opening.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
8 Of course, being fatally poor and dingy, it was wise of Gerty to have taken up philanthropy and symphony concerts; but there was something irritating in her assumption that existence yielded no higher pleasures, and that one might get as much interest and excitement out of life in a cramped flat as in the splendours of the Van Osburgh establishment.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 8