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1  She paused a moment, glancing about her, calmly taking the measure of her situation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
2  Selden had in fact given her the utmost measure of his sureness, had even stretched it a shade to meet the anxiety in her eyes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
3  Mrs. Fisher's measures had been well-taken, and society, surprised in a dull moment, succumbed to the temptation of Mrs. Bry's hospitality.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  But all the while another self was sharpening her to vigilance, whispering the terrified warning that every word and gesture must be measured.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
5  The two measured each other for a moment, but Lily still saw her opponent through a blur of scorn that made all other considerations indistinct.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
6  They both laughed, and he knelt by the table to light the lamp under the kettle, while she measured out the tea into a little tea-pot of green glaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  She paused again to measure the effect of this announcement on her hearer, but the brush in Miss Bart's lifted hand maintained its unwavering stroke from brow to nape.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
8  She put out her hand, and measured the soothing drops into a glass; but as she did so, she knew they would be powerless against the supernatural lucidity of her brain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
9  The unusual harshness of his tone might have shown her how much the words cost him; but she was in no state to measure his feelings while her own were in a flame of revolt.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
10  The name, as Gerty saw with a clutch at the heart, had loosened the springs of self-pity in her friend's dry breast, and tear by tear Lily poured out the measure of her anguish.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  He had cut loose from the familiar shores of habit, and launched himself on uncharted seas of emotion; all the old tests and measures were left behind, and his course was to be shaped by new stars.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
12  Society did not turn away from her, it simply drifted by, preoccupied and inattentive, letting her feel, to the full measure of her humbled pride, how completely she had been the creature of its favour.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
13  Gerty had the feeling that he measured the cost of her request as plainly as she read the significance of his reply; and the sense of all that was suddenly clear between them made her next words easier to find.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
14  The faint disdain of her smile seemed to lift her high above her antagonist's reach, and it was not till she had given Mrs. Dorset the full measure of the distance between them that she turned and extended her hand to her hostess.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
15  She had refrained from touching it because it was a last resource, and she had relied on other arts to stimulate other sensations; but as a settled look of dulness began to creep over his candid features, she saw that extreme measures were necessary.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
16  At any rate, though she remained haughtily at Bellomont, Lily suspected in her a devouring eagerness to hear of what she had missed, and to learn exactly in what measure Mrs. Wellington Bry had surpassed all previous competitors for social recognition.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
17  It certainly simplified life to view it as a perpetual adjustment, a play of party politics, in which every concession had its recognized equivalent: Lily's tired mind was fascinated by this escape from fluctuating ethical estimates into a region of concrete weights and measures.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
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