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1 The bitter waters of life surged high about him, their sterile taste was on his lips.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
2 "You know I can coax the water to boil in five minutes," Selden continued, speaking as though she were a troubled child.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
3 The magic place was deserted: there was no sound but the splash of the water on the lily-pads, and a distant drift of music that might have been blown across a sleeping lake.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4 Selden, stumbling on a chance acquaintance, had dined with him, and adjourned, still in his company, to the brightly lit Promenade, where a line of crowded stands commanded the glittering darkness of the waters.
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5 Thence they caught but a triangular glimpse of the water, and of the flashing play of boats across its surface; but the crowd in the street was under their immediate view, and seemed to Selden, on the whole, of more interest than the show itself.
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6 Between the two, the waters of the bay were furrowed by a light coming and going of pleasure-craft, through which, just at the culminating moment of luncheon, the majestic advance of a great steam-yacht drew the company's attention from the peas.
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7 The purpling waters drew a sharp white line of foam at the base of the shore; against its irregular eminences, hotels and villas flashed from the greyish verdure of olive and eucalyptus; and the background of bare and finely-pencilled mountains quivered in a pale intensity of light.
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