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1  She blushed a little under his gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
2  She had turned to gaze on him gravely.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
3  Lily, leaning back among her pillows, gazed musingly at his letter.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13
4  Lily sat gazing absently through the blue rings of her cigarette-smoke.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
5  Miss Bart put down her pen and sat absently gazing at the note she had begun.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
6  Miss Bart did not cry out: she sat silent, gazing thoughtfully at her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
7  She stood silent, gazing away from him down the autumnal stretch of the deserted lane.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
8  Her voice had dropped to a note of seriousness, and she sat gazing up at him with the troubled gravity of a child.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
9  Her footsteps flagged, and she stood gazing listlessly ahead, digging the ferny edge of the path with the tip of her sunshade.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
10  Mr. Bart dropped into a chair, and sat gazing absently at the fragment of jellied salmon which the butler had placed before him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
11  She rose, and walking across the floor stood gazing at herself for a long time in the brightly-lit mirror above the mantel-piece.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
12  Trenor, looking stouter than ever in his tight frock-coat, and unbecomingly flushed by the bridal libations, gazed at her with undisguised approval.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  The rooms were packed with the gazing throng which, in the afternoon hours, trickles heavily between the tables, like the Sunday crowd in a lion-house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
14  Mr. Bart sat motionless, his gaze still fixed on the salmon, and his lower jaw dropped; he looked even paler than usual, and his thin hair lay in untidy streaks on his forehead.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
15  She questioned him intelligently, she heard him submissively; and, prepared for the look of lassitude which usually crept over his listeners' faces, he grew eloquent under her receptive gaze.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
16  Her small pale face seemed the mere setting of a pair of dark exaggerated eyes, of which the visionary gaze contrasted curiously with her self-assertive tone and gestures; so that, as one of her friends observed, she was like a disembodied spirit who took up a great deal of room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
17  He knew only that he had never seen Lily look smarter in her life, that there wasn't a woman in the house who showed off good clothes as she did, and that hitherto he, to whom she owed the opportunity of making this display, had reaped no return beyond that of gazing at her in company with several hundred other pairs of eyes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
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