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1  As much as a man may who has no money to spend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
2  But it isn't every woman can do it, no matter how much you spend on her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
3  I thought you were going to spend the whole autumn with us, and I've hardly laid eyes on you for the last month.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  About this time she was farther cheered by an invitation to spend the Thanksgiving week at a camp in the Adirondacks.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
5  And I'm sure there is no truth in the horrid things people say; but she HAS been spending a great deal of money this winter.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
6  You know she'll let him do anything but spend money on his friends: the only reason she's decent to me now is that she knows I'm not hard up.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
7  I wanted money, and I've got more than I know how to invest; and now the money doesn't seem to be of any account unless I can spend it on the right woman.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
8  She had made no reply to his suggestion that they should spend the afternoon together, but as her plan unfolded itself he felt fairly confident of being included in it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
9  In truth, however, she was fast wearying of her solitary existence with Mrs. Peniston, and only the excitement of spending her newly-acquired money lightened the dulness of the days.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
10  Lily sat silent, taking the brunt of it quietly, letting it spend itself on her to the last drop of its accumulated falseness; then, without a word, she rose and went down to her cabin.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
11  It seemed to her natural that Lily should spend all her money on dress, and she supplemented the girl's scanty income by occasional "handsome presents" meant to be applied to the same purpose.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
12  It did not occur to her that Selden might have been actuated merely by the desire to spend a Sunday out of town: women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
13  Everything, accordingly, was well done, for there was no limit to Mrs. Fisher's prodigality when she was not spending her own money, and as she remarked to her pupil, a good cook was the best introduction to society.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
14  But he enjoyed spectacular effects, and was not insensible to the part money plays in their production: all he asked was that the very rich should live up to their calling as stage-managers, and not spend their money in a dull way.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
15  The fact that the money freed her temporarily from all minor obligations obscured her sense of the greater one it represented, and having never before known what it was to command so large a sum, she lingered delectably over the amusement of spending it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
16  But Lily had known the species before: she was aware that such a guarded nature must find one huge outlet of egoism, and she determined to be to him what his Americana had hitherto been: the one possession in which he took sufficient pride to spend money on it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
17  As she exhausted the amusement of spending the money these complications became more pressing, and Lily, whose mind could be severely logical in tracing the causes of her ill-luck to others, justified herself by the thought that she owed all her troubles to the enmity of Bertha Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
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