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1 He met her eyes with the latent sweetness of his.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2 It was a day in late April, and the sweetness of spring was in the air.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
3 She looked languid, full of a suffering sweetness; she carried a scent-bottle in her hand.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4 The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
5 In the uneasy snatches of her natural dreams he came to her sometimes in the old guise of fellowship and tenderness; and she would rise from the sweet delusion mocked and emptied of her courage.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6 And she had felt, even in the full storm of her misery, that Selden's love could not be her ultimate refuge; only it would be so sweet to take a moment's shelter there, while she gathered fresh strength to go on.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
7 At any rate he engaged Lily so long that the sweets were being handed when she caught a phrase on her other side, where Miss Corby, the comic woman of the company, was bantering Jack Stepney on his approaching engagement.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8 It was all the more agreeable to find that this reasonableness was maintained only at the cost of not seeing her; but, though nothing in life was as sweet as the sense of her power over him, she saw the danger of allowing the episode of the previous night to have a sequel.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 13