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1  Mr. Pontellier was too well acquainted with fever symptoms to be mistaken.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In III
2  By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXVII
3  The flowers were like new acquaintances; she approached them in a familiar spirit, and made herself at home among them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXIV
4  She did not deem it worth while to go in search of any of the fashionable acquaintances from whom she had withdrawn herself.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXV
5  The preliminary stage of becoming acquainted was one which he always endeavored to ignore when a pretty and engaging woman was concerned.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXV
6  She handled her brushes with a certain ease and freedom which came, not from long and close acquaintance with them, but from a natural aptitude.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In V
7  But for the past few days the old gentleman had been upon Edna's hands, and in his society she was becoming acquainted with a new set of sensations.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXIII
8  That she was seeing with different eyes and making the acquaintance of new conditions in herself that colored and changed her environment, she did not yet suspect.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XIV
9  She has abandoned her Tuesdays at home, has thrown over all her acquaintances, and goes tramping about by herself, moping in the street-cars, getting in after dark.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXII
10  She discovered that he interested her, though she realized that he might not interest her long; and for the first time in her life she felt as if she were thoroughly acquainted with him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXIII
11  He was already acquainted with the market reports, and he glanced restlessly over the editorials and bits of news which he had not had time to read before quitting New Orleans the day before.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In I
12  It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XVIII