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1 Lily, still lost in conjecture, made no reply, and Mrs. Dorset settled herself indolently in her seat.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
2 Suddenly her expression changed from desultory enjoyment to active conjecture, and she turned to Selden with a question.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3 The only hope of renewal lay in the little bottle at her bed-side; and how much longer that hope would last she dared not conjecture.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
4 The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
5 Now the other side presented itself to Lily, the volcanic nether side of the surface over which conjecture and innuendo glide so lightly till the first fissure turns their whisper to a shriek.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
6 In the words preceding it she had conjectured, at most, an allusion to her supposed influence over George Dorset; nor did the astonishing indelicacy of the reference diminish the likelihood of Rosedale's resorting to it.
House of MirthBy Edith Wharton ContextHighlight In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
7 She had first imagined some physical shock, some peril of the crowded streets, since Lily was presumably on her way home from Carry Fisher's; but she now saw that other nerve-centres were smitten, and her mind trembled back from conjecture.
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