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 Current Search - Observe in Jane Eyre
1  I looked very pale, she observed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  John withdrew without having observed me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  I did not observe her at first, nor did Mr. Rochester.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  My position, Miss Eyre, with my back to the fire, and my face to the room, favours observation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  I feel more inclination to put you in the way of keeping yourself, and shall endeavour to do so; but observe, my sphere is narrow.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  One of the gentlemen, Mr. Eshton, observing me, seemed to propose that I should be asked to join them; but Lady Ingram instantly negatived the notion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  I observed you in your class this morning, and saw you were closely attentive: your thoughts never seemed to wander while Miss Miller explained the lesson and questioned you.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our ordinary meals, was served round between the services.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  By Mr. Rochester they were not observed; he was earnestly looking at my face from which the blood had, I daresay, momentarily fled: for I felt my forehead dewy, and my cheeks and lips cold.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  One reason of the distance yet observed between us was, that he was comparatively seldom at home: a large proportion of his time appeared devoted to visiting the sick and poor among the scattered population of his parish.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  Hitherto, while gathering up the discourse of Mr. Brocklehurst and Miss Temple, I had not, at the same time, neglected precautions to secure my personal safety; which I thought would be effected, if I could only elude observation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  I observed when any one entered or left the apartment: I could even tell who they were; I could understand what was said when the speaker stood near to me; but I could not answer; to open my lips or move my limbs was equally impossible.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
13  There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  It was English history: among the readers I observed my acquaintance of the verandah: at the commencement of the lesson, her place had been at the top of the class, but for some error of pronunciation, or some inattention to stops, she was suddenly sent to the very bottom.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
16  As she said this, she approached her tall person and ample garments so near the window, that I was obliged to bend back almost to the breaking of my spine: in her eagerness she did not observe me at first, but when she did, she curled her lip and moved to another casement.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
17  Thus engaged, he appeared, sitting in his own recess, quiet and absorbed enough; but that blue eye of his had a habit of leaving the outlandish-looking grammar, and wandering over, and sometimes fixing upon us, his fellow-students, with a curious intensity of observation: if caught, it would be instantly withdrawn; yet ever and anon, it returned searchingly to our table.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
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