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1  I said I should like to go; but reminded it, as you did me, that I had no wings to fly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  There were the two wings of the building; there was the garden; there were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Next morning I had the pleasure of encountering him; left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms, feeble as the wing of a chicken in the pip, and then thought I had done with the whole crew.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  It trembled for Mr. Rochester and his doom; it bemoaned him with bitter pity; it demanded him with ceaseless longing; and, impotent as a bird with both wings broken, it still quivered its shattered pinions in vain attempts to seek him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings; something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down; I rushed to the door and shook the lock in desperate effort.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; its beak held a gold bracelet set with gems, that I had touched with as brilliant tints as my palette could yield, and as glittering distinctness as my pencil could impart.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII