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1  I unknotted the handkerchief, and commenced dropping them in from an angle, and the flame curled up the chimney.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
2  The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  And, perhaps, not quite awake to what he did, but attracted like a child to a candle, at last he proceeded from staring to touching; he put out his hand and stroked one curl, as gently as if it were a bird.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  I reached the Grange before sunset, and knocked for admittance; but the family had retreated into the back premises, I judged, by one thin, blue wreath, curling from the kitchen chimney, and they did not hear.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  At first she sat silent; but that could not last: she had resolved to make a pet of her little cousin, as she would have him to be; and she commenced stroking his curls, and kissing his cheek, and offering him tea in her saucer, like a baby.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Each had enough decorum to suspend further hostilities: Heathcliff placed his fists, out of temptation, in his pockets; Mrs. Heathcliff curled her lip, and walked to a seat far off, where she kept her word by playing the part of a statue during the remainder of my stay.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I