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1 I'm all broken up on you: there's nothing new in that.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
2 Miss Bart released her, and stood breathing brokenly, like one who has gained shelter after a long flight.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
3 She sat quiet, her lips parted by the stress of the ascent, her eyes wandering peacefully over the broken ranges of the landscape.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
4 Her fibres had been softened by suffering, and the sudden glimpse into his mocked and broken life disarmed her contempt for his weakness.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
5 It was the unconscious prolongation of this thought which led her to say presently, with a laugh: "I have broken two engagements for you today."
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
6 Of late the sleep it had brought her had been more broken and less profound; there had been nights when she was perpetually floating up through it to consciousness.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7 She was appalled by the intense cleanness of the vision; she seemed to have broken through the merciful veil which intervenes between intention and action, and to see exactly what she would do in all the long days to come.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
8 Lily, however, was not among them, and her absence served to protract the effect she had produced on Selden: it would have broken the spell to see her too soon in the surroundings from which accident had so happily detached her.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
9 Meanwhile, as the dinner advanced through a labyrinth of courses, in which it became clear that Mrs. Bry had occasionally broken away from Lord Hubert's restraining hand, Selden's general watchfulness began to lose itself in a particular study of Miss Bart.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 3