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1  I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
2  I retired to a window-seat, and taking a book from a table near, endeavoured to read.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  I looked up at him to read the signs of bliss in his face: it was ardent and flushed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  A chapter having been read through twice, the books were closed and the girls examined.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  The meal over, prayers were read by Miss Miller, and the classes filed off, two and two, upstairs.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
6  I liked to read what they liked to read: what they enjoyed, delighted me; what they approved, I reverenced.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  She surveyed my whole person: in her eyes I read that they had there found no charm powerful enough to solve the enigma.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  I read these words over and over again: I felt that an explanation belonged to them, and was unable fully to penetrate their import.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  They were both more accomplished and better read than I was; but with eagerness I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
11  I had to sit with the girls during their hour of study; then it was my turn to read prayers; to see them to bed: afterwards I supped with the other teachers.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
12  The Sunday evening was spent in repeating, by heart, the Church Catechism, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew; and in listening to a long sermon, read by Miss Miller, whose irrepressible yawns attested her weariness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  He was moody, too; unaccountably so; I more than once, when sent for to read to him, found him sitting in his library alone, with his head bent on his folded arms; and, when he looked up, a morose, almost a malignant, scowl blackened his features.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Mr. Rochester had sometimes read my unspoken thoughts with an acumen to me incomprehensible: in the present instance he took no notice of my abrupt vocal response; but he smiled at me with a certain smile he had of his own, and which he used but on rare occasions.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
15  Jumping over forms, and creeping under tables, I made my way to one of the fire-places; there, kneeling by the high wire fender, I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all round her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
16  We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
17  An extinguished candle stood on the table; she was bending over the fire, and seemed reading in a little black book, like a prayer-book, by the light of the blaze: she muttered the words to herself, as most old women do, while she read; she did not desist immediately on my entrance: it appeared she wished to finish a paragraph.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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