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1  Such a thing had never happened before.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In II
2  There isn't a thing I can do, he began again.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
3  And then one thing and another came, and my own troubles.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX
4  Only one thing weighed on him, and that was his having told Zeena that he was to receive cash for the lumber.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IV
5  She had taken everything else from him; and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for all the others.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VII
6  I always tell Mr. Hale I don't know what she'd 'a' done if she hadn't 'a' had you to look after her; and I used to say the same thing 'bout your mother.'
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In VIII
7  But he continued to finger about cautiously with his left hand, thinking he might get hold of the little creature and help it; and all at once he knew that the soft thing he had touched was Mattie's hair and that his hand was on her face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In IX