1 The three gentlemen retreated simultaneously.
2 They were all three of the loftiest stature of women.
3 The three days were, as she had foretold, busy enough.
4 Still holding me fast, he left the church: the three gentlemen came after.
5 No blame attached to me: I am as free from culpability as any one of you three.
6 By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.
7 The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind.
8 He came down to Gateshead about three weeks ago and wanted missis to give up all to him.
9 Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room.
10 Not three in three thousand raw school-girl-governesses would have answered me as you have just done.
11 A distant bell tinkled: immediately three ladies entered the room, each walked to a table and took her seat.
12 Two or three of the gentlemen sat near him, and I caught at times scraps of their conversation across the room.
13 The three looked at me, but not distrustfully; I felt there was no suspicion in their glances: there was more of curiosity.
14 She was three days without speaking; but last Tuesday she seemed rather better: she appeared as if she wanted to say something, and kept making signs to my wife and mumbling.
15 I had heard from Mrs. Fairfax in the interim of my absence: the party at the hall was dispersed; Mr. Rochester had left for London three weeks ago, but he was then expected to return in a fortnight.
16 He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually: every nerve I had feared him, and every morsel of flesh in my bones shrank when he came near.
17 Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.
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