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1  One by one she had detached herself from the baser possibilities, and she saw that nothing now remained to her but the emptiness of renunciation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
2  But what especially struck him was the way in which she detached herself, by a hundred undefinable shades, from the persons who most abounded in her own style.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
3  It was from her that he inherited his detachment from the sumptuary side of life: the stoic's carelessness of material things, combined with the Epicurean's pleasure in them.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
4  Completely as he had detached himself from her, he could not yet regard her merely as a social instance; and viewed in a more personal ways she was not likely to be a reassuring object of study.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
5  It was rather that he had preserved a certain social detachment, a happy air of viewing the show objectively, of having points of contact outside the great gilt cage in which they were all huddled for the mob to gape at.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
6  The baby, feeling herself detached from her habitual anchorage, made an instinctive motion of resistance; but the soothing influences of digestion prevailed, and Lily felt the soft weight sink trustfully against her breast.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
7  Lily, however, was not among them, and her absence served to protract the effect she had produced on Selden: it would have broken the spell to see her too soon in the surroundings from which accident had so happily detached her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
8  He had a personal detachment enabling him, even in moments of emotional high-pressure, to get a fairly clear view of his feelings, and he was sincerely surprised by the disturbance which the sight of the Sabrina had produced in him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
9  It was the moment for tact; for the quick bridging over of gaps; but Selden still leaned against the window, a detached observer of the scene, and under the spell of his observation Lily felt herself powerless to exert her usual arts.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
10  It was inevitable that Lily herself should constitute the first sacrifice to this new ideal, and she knew that, once the Gormers were established in town, the whole drift of fashionable life would facilitate Mattie's detachment from her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
11  It was as though her beauty, thus detached from all that cheapened and vulgarized it, had held out suppliant hands to him from the world in which he and she had once met for a moment, and where he felt an overmastering longing to be with her again.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
12  He saw that all the conditions of life had conspired to keep them apart; since his very detachment from the external influences which swayed her had increased his spiritual fastidiousness, and made it more difficult for him to live and love uncritically.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
13  Never had she appeared more serenely mistress of the situation than when, at the moment of dispersal, detaching herself a little from the group about the table, she turned with a smile and a graceful slant of the shoulders to receive her cloak from Dorset.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
14  His real detachment from her had taken place, not at the lurid moment of disenchantment, but now, in the sober after-light of discrimination, where he saw her definitely divided from him by the crudeness of a choice which seemed to deny the very differences he felt in her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
15  Lawrence Selden was in fact seated at its farther end; but though a book lay on his knee, his attention was not engaged with it, but directed to a lady whose lace-clad figure, as she leaned back in an adjoining chair, detached itself with exaggerated slimness against the dusky leather upholstery.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
16  Miss Farish could see no hope for her friend but in a life completely reorganized and detached from its old associations; whereas all Lily's energies were centred in the determined effort to hold fast to those associations, to keep herself visibly identified with them, as long as the illusion could be maintained.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
17  Chance encounters, or even the repeated mention of her name, would send his thoughts back into grooves from which he had resolutely detached them; whereas, if she could be entirely excluded from his life, the pressure of new and varied impressions, with which no thought of her was connected, would soon complete the work of separation.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 1
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