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1  Selden tossed away his cigarette.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
2  She rose with a sigh, tossing her cigarette into the grate.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3  She leaned forward, holding the tip of her cigarette to his.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  He had drawn out his cigarettes as he spoke, and she reached her hand toward the case.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  It would be a curious thing to study the effect of cigarettes on the relation of the sexes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
6  She waited while the spark flickered under his curved palm; then he held out the cigarettes to her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
7  Selden continued to look at her; then he drew his cigarette-case from his pocket and slowly lit a cigarette.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
8  You're very kind, Judy: I'll lock up my cigarettes and wear that last year's dress you sent me this morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
9  Then he gave a short laugh, and drew out a gold cigarette-case, in which, with plump jewelled fingers, he groped for a gold-tipped cigarette.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  He lit Selden's proffered cigarette, and continued, in his high-pitched drawling tone: "None of my business, of course, but I didn't introduce her to the Duchess."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
11  He offered the box, and she took out three or four cigarettes, putting one between her lips and slipping the others into a little gold case attached to her long pearl chain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
12  Both of these she found on the terrace, where only a few men were lingering over cigarettes and liqueur, while scattered couples strolled across the lawn to the autumn-tinted borders of the flower-garden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  Through the haze of her cigarette smoke she continued to gaze meditatively at Miss Bart, who, having dismissed her maid, sat before the toilet-table shaking out over her shoulders the loosened undulations of her hair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
14  The soft shade of their niche, and the adjacent glitter of the air, were conducive to an easy lounging mood, and to the smoking of many cigarettes; and Selden, yielding to these influences, suffered Mrs. Fisher to unfold to him the history of her recent experiences.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
15  Hang it, if he could find a way out of such difficulties for a professional sponge like Carry Fisher, who was simply a mental habit corresponding to the physical titillations of the cigarette or the cock-tail, he could surely do as much for a girl who appealed to his highest sympathies, and who brought her troubles to him with the trustfulness of a child.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
16  She had seen the Wetheralls, the Trenor girls and Lady Cressida packed safely into the omnibus; Judy Trenor was sure to be having her hair shampooed; Carry Fisher had doubtless carried off her host for a drive; Ned Silverton was probably smoking the cigarette of young despair in his bedroom; and Kate Corby was certain to be playing tennis with Jack Stepney and Miss Van Osburgh.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5