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1  The chairs were also damaged, many of them severely; and deep indentations deformed the panels of the walls.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
2  Heathcliff stood near the entrance, in his shirt and trousers; with a candle dripping over his fingers, and his face as white as the wall behind him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
4  It turned out afterwards that he only got as far as the other side the settle, when he flung himself on a bench by the wall, removed from the fire and remained silent.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  It had got dusk, and the moon looked over the high wall of the court, causing undefined shadows to lurk in the corners of the numerous projecting portions of the building.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
6  We had not yet lighted a candle, but all the apartment was visible, even to the portraits on the wall: the splendid head of Mrs. Linton, and the graceful one of her husband.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  We were in April then: the weather was sweet and warm, the grass as green as showers and sun could make it, and the two dwarf apple-trees near the southern wall in full bloom.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
8  In passing the garden to reach the road, at a place where a bridle hook is driven into the wall, I saw something white moved irregularly, evidently by another agent than the wind.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
9  It was dug on a green slope in a corner of the kirk-yard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry-plants have climbed over it from the moor; and peat-mould almost buries it.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
10  He pointed into the second garret, only differing from the first in being more naked about the walls, and having a large, low, curtainless bed, with an indigo-coloured quilt, at one end.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  When beneath its walls, I perceived decay had made progress, even in seven months: many a window showed black gaps deprived of glass; and slates jutted off here and there, beyond the right line of the roof, to be gradually worked off in coming autumn storms.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
12  He drew it nearer, and then rested his arms on the table, and looked at the opposite wall, as I supposed, surveying one particular portion, up and down, with glittering, restless eyes, and with such eager interest that he stopped breathing during half a minute together.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
13  She kept wandering to and fro, from the gate to the door, in a state of agitation which permitted no repose; and at length took up a permanent situation on one side of the wall, near the road: where, heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained, calling at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter: at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils, deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on the walls.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I