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1  Miss Bart stared in affected reproval.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
2  Alone with her cousin's kiss, Gerty stared upon her thoughts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3  She laid down the paper and sat motionless, staring at her note.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
4  To her surprise, Trenor answered the look with a speechless stare.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
5  Lily stood staring vacantly at the white sapphire on its velvet bed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
6  Rosedale continued to stare at her in wonder; but the wonder took the turn she had least expected.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  The woman, without answering, pushed her pail aside, and continued to stare as Miss Bart swept by with a murmur of silken linings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
8  Rosedale stared a moment, puzzled by her sudden dash in a direction so different from that toward which she had appeared to be letting him guide her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
9  The blush surprised her almost as much as it did her hostess, who, though not commonly observant of facial changes, sat staring at her with puzzled eyes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
10  And as Lily stared at the breathless suddenness of the suggestion, she continued with her easy laugh: "You don't know them and they don't know you; but that don't make a rap of difference."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
11  It seemed to tire him to rest, and he would sit for hours staring at the sea-line from a quiet corner of the verandah, while the clatter of his wife's existence went on unheeded a few feet off.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  Kate Corby, whose tastes made her as promiscuous as Carry Fisher was rendered by her necessities, occasionally descended on the Gormers, where, after a first stare of surprise, she took Lily's presence almost too much as a matter of course.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
13  It seemed to her that she was again descending the staircase from Selden's rooms; and looking down to remonstrate with the dispenser of the soapy flood, she found herself met by a lifted stare which had once before confronted her under similar circumstances.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
14  The process lasted long enough for uneasiness to turn to apprehension; but when at length a slip of paper was handed him, and he read on it: "Care of Mrs. Norma Hatch, Emporium Hotel," his apprehension passed into an incredulous stare, and this into the gesture of disgust with which he tore the paper in two, and turned to walk quickly homeward.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8