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1  The hall-door, which was half of glass, stood open; I stepped over the threshold.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Mrs. Fairfax was dusting some vases of fine purple spar, which stood on a sideboard.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  She was in a room the folding-doors of which stood open: I went in when she addressed me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  I now stood in the empty hall; before me was the breakfast-room door, and I stopped, intimidated and trembling.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  She stood at the bottom of the long room, on the hearth; for there was a fire at each end; she surveyed the two rows of girls silently and gravely.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
7  It seemed as if, could I but go back to the idea which had last entered my mind as I stood at the window, some inventive suggestion would rise for my relief.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
8  It was night: a candle burnt on the table; Bessie stood at the bed-foot with a basin in her hand, and a gentleman sat in a chair near my pillow, leaning over me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
9  I expected she would show signs of great distress and shame; but to my surprise she neither wept nor blushed: composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
10  As yet I had spoken to no one, nor did anybody seem to take notice of me; I stood lonely enough: but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed; it did not oppress me much.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
11  A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  A little hamlet, whose roofs were blent with trees, straggled up the side of one of these hills; the church of the district stood nearer Thornfield: its old tower-top looked over a knoll between the house and gates.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  I shuddered as I stood and looked round me: it was an inclement day for outdoor exercise; not positively rainy, but darkened by a drizzling yellow fog; all under foot was still soaking wet with the floods of yesterday.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
14  The remains of my breakfast of bread and milk stood on the table, and having crumbled a morsel of roll, I was tugging at the sash to put out the crumbs on the window-sill, when Bessie came running upstairs into the nursery.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  This ruddy shine issued from the great dining-room, whose two-leaved door stood open, and showed a genial fire in the grate, glancing on marble hearth and brass fire-irons, and revealing purple draperies and polished furniture, in the most pleasant radiance.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
16  Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary: to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
17  I stood and warmed my numbed fingers over the blaze, then I looked round; there was no candle, but the uncertain light from the hearth showed, by intervals, papered walls, carpet, curtains, shining mahogany furniture: it was a parlour, not so spacious or splendid as the drawing-room at Gateshead, but comfortable enough.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
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