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1  She nodded, with the tears rolling down her face.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
2  She looked at her father again, but no tear fell down her cheek.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
3  The wood floated before her, for her eyes were suffused with tears.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
4  The culprit was moved to a few abject tears by these words and their pathetic tone.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
5  All her wildness and passion had subsided; but, though softened, she was not in tears.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
6  The face touched hers, and she knew that there were tears upon it too, and she the cause of them.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
7  Her father was changed in nothing so much as in the respect that he would have been glad to see her in tears.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
8  She broke into a passion of tears and lamentations: Stephen Blackpool was written in his own hand on the inside.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
9  As she softened with the quiet, and the consciousness of being so watched, some tears made their way into her eyes.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
10  She left her love for her brother, with her eyes full of tears; and she and Sissy went away until later in the afternoon.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
11  The air that would be healthful to the earth, the water that would enrich it, the heat that would ripen it, tear it when caged up.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
12  Sissy, who all this time had been faintly excusing herself with tears in her eyes, was now waved over by the master of the house to Mr. Gradgrind.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
13  A special contrast, as every man was in the forest of looms where Stephen worked, to the crashing, smashing, tearing piece of mechanism at which he laboured.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
14  Utterly heedless of the wear and tear of her clothes and constitution, and adamant to her pathetic sneezes, Mr. Bounderby immediately crammed her into a coach, and bore her off to Stone Lodge.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
15  While looking at it, it was shut out from his view by the softened tears that filled his eyes; but not before he had seen how earnestly she looked at him, and how her own eyes were filled too.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII
16  Adam Smith and Malthus, two younger Gradgrinds, were out at lecture in custody; and little Jane, after manufacturing a good deal of moist pipe-clay on her face with slate-pencil and tears, had fallen asleep over vulgar fractions.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
17  Whether she would instantly depart, bag and baggage, to Lady Scadgers, or would positively refuse to budge from the premises; whether she would be plaintive or abusive, tearful or tearing; whether she would break her heart, or break the looking-glass; Mr. Bounderby could not all foresee.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
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