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1  Hareton, you infernal calf, begone to your work.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  He was worked up to forget the fiendish prudence he boasted of, and proceeded to murderous violence.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  The housekeeper and Hareton were invisible; one gone on an errand, and the other at his work, probably.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  The work they studied was full of costly pictures; and those and their position had charm enough to keep them unmoved till Joseph came home.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  Heathcliff bore his degradation pretty well at first, because Cathy taught him what she learnt, and worked or played with him in the fields.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  I came in to sit with them, after I had done my work; and I felt so soothed and comforted to watch them, that I did not notice how time got on.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  She returned presently, bringing a smoking basin and a basket of work; and, having placed the former on the hob, drew in her seat, evidently pleased to find me so companionable.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Her father sat reading at the table; and I, on purpose, had sought a bit of work in some unripped fringes of the window-curtain, keeping my eye steadily fixed on her proceedings.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  He maintained a hard, careless deportment, indicative of neither joy nor sorrow: if anything, it expressed a flinty gratification at a piece of difficult work successfully executed.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  But in the afternoon, while Joseph and Hareton were at their work, he came into the kitchen again, and, with a wild look, bid me come and sit in the house: he wanted somebody with him.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  This lamentation drew no notice from me: I went briskly to work, sighing to remember a period when it would have been all merry fun; but compelled speedily to drive off the remembrance.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
12  I let him know that his cousin would very likely sit with us, and she had been always used to see the Sabbath respected; so he had as good leave his guns and bits of indoor work alone, while she stayed.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  But her ingenuity was at work to remedy the injury: while I ironed, or pursued other such stationary employments as I could not well do in the parlour, she would bring some pleasant volume and read it aloud to me.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton: for I had engaged to call again next day, when we quitted him; but, as you stayed up-stairs on the morrow, I escaped that trouble.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  In the first place, he had by that time lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
16  When beneath its walls, I perceived decay had made progress, even in seven months: many a window showed black gaps deprived of glass; and slates jutted off here and there, beyond the right line of the roof, to be gradually worked off in coming autumn storms.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
17  She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where she had seen her cousin performing some easy work; and when I went to bid them come to breakfast, I saw she had persuaded him to clear a large space of ground from currant and gooseberry bushes, and they were busy planning together an importation of plants from the Grange.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
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