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1  My character is the same to me as any lady's.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
2  The problem of how to pass her off as a lady.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
3  Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
4  Don't mistake the one for the other if you wish to become a lady in a shop.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
5  I want to be a lady in a flower shop stead of selling at the corner of Tottenham Court Road.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
6  I could even get her a place as lady's maid or shop assistant, which requires better English.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
7  No, Eliza: do as this lady does: think of other people's futures; but never think of your own.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
8  A lady friend of mine gets French lessons for eighteenpence an hour from a real French gentleman.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
9  This is my return for offering to take you out of the gutter and dress you beautifully and make a lady of you.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
10  If you are not found out, you shall have a present of seven-and-sixpence to start life with as a lady in a shop.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
11  Eliza: you are to live here for the next six months, learning how to speak beautifully, like a lady in a florist's shop.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
12  I tell you I have created this thing out of the squashed cabbage leaves of Covent Garden; and now she pretends to play the fine lady with me.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
13  When he opens it he is confronted with a dainty and exquisitely clean young Japanese lady in a simple blue cotton kimono printed cunningly with small white jasmine blossoms.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
14  If the King finds out you're not a lady, you will be taken by the police to the Tower of London, where your head will be cut off as a warning to other presumptuous flower girls.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
15  If you're going to be a lady, you'll have to give up feeling neglected if the men you know don't spend half their time snivelling over you and the other half giving you black eyes.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
16  Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
17  I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
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