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1  The case is very plain before me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  Is he a person of low stature, phlegmatic, and plain.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Mrs. Fairfax received me with her usual plain friendliness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  Something of daylight still lingered, and the moon was waxing bright: I could see him plainly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  The parlour was rather a small room, very plainly furnished, yet comfortable, because clean and neat.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
6  Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
7  I tell you this plainly; and listen: for though I shall no more repeat what I am now about to say, I shall steadily act on it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  I took a plain but clean and light summer dress from my drawer and put it on: it seemed no attire had ever so well become me, because none had I ever worn in so blissful a mood.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  I had long felt with pleasure that many of my rustic scholars liked me, and when we parted, that consciousness was confirmed: they manifested their affection plainly and strongly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  I knew his thoughts well, and could read his heart plainly; at the moment I felt calmer and cooler than he: I had then temporarily the advantage of him, and I conceived an inclination to do him some good, if I could.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
11  I saw plainly how you would look; and heard your impetuous republican answers, and your haughty disavowal of any necessity on your part to augment your wealth, or elevate your standing, by marrying either a purse or a coronet.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
12  With this announcement he rose from his chair, and stood, leaning his arm on the marble mantelpiece: in that attitude his shape was seen plainly as well as his face; his unusual breadth of chest, disproportionate almost to his length of limb.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
13  While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition, and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  What had just passed; what Mrs. Reed had said concerning me to Mr. Brocklehurst; the whole tenor of their conversation, was recent, raw, and stinging in my mind; I had felt every word as acutely as I had heard it plainly, and a passion of resentment fomented now within me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  On the hill-top above me sat the rising moon; pale yet as a cloud, but brightening momentarily, she looked over Hay, which, half lost in trees, sent up a blue smoke from its few chimneys: it was yet a mile distant, but in the absolute hush I could hear plainly its thin murmurs of life.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
16  After a brief stay there, I shall bear my treasure to regions nearer the sun: to French vineyards and Italian plains; and she shall see whatever is famous in old story and in modern record: she shall taste, too, of the life of cities; and she shall learn to value herself by just comparison with others.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
17  I meant to tell my tale plainly, and make my proposals openly: and it appeared to me so absolutely rational that I should be considered free to love and be loved, I never doubted some woman might be found willing and able to understand my case and accept me, in spite of the curse with which I was burdened.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
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