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1  Give Skulker some water, Jenny.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  He told me to fetch some water.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  Hindley wanted some water, and I handed him a glass, and asked him how he was.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  With these words she suddenly splashed a pint of icy water down my neck, and pulled me into the kitchen.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Cathy began searching for some water; she lighted on a pitcher in the dresser, filled a tumbler, and brought it.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
6  The lady had a cloak about her face; but having desired a sup of water, while she drank it fell back, and she saw her very plain.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
7  She placed a cushion under his head, and offered him some water; he rejected the latter, and tossed uneasily on the former, as if it were a stone or a block of wood.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  Nobody but I even did him the kindness to call him a dirty boy, and bid him wash himself, once a week; and children of his age seldom have a natural pleasure in soap and water.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  She stamped her foot, wavered a moment, and then, irresistibly impelled by the naughty spirit within her, slapped me on the cheek: a stinging blow that filled both eyes with water.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  Mrs. Linton, on the third day, unbarred her door, and having finished the water in her pitcher and decanter, desired a renewed supply, and a basin of gruel, for she believed she was dying.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
11  It racked me to recall past happiness and the greater peril there was of conjuring up its apparition, the quicker the thible ran round, and the faster the handfuls of meal fell into the water.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  Then the woman-servant brought a basin of warm water, and washed her feet; and Mr. Linton mixed a tumbler of negus, and Isabella emptied a plateful of cakes into her lap, and Edgar stood gaping at a distance.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawl-less to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  She certainly seemed in no laughing predicament: her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and nothing on either head or neck.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I