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1  Selden, catching the glance, wondered what part Miss Bart had played in organizing the entertainment.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
2  She began to cut the pages of a novel, tranquilly studying her prey through downcast lashes while she organized a method of attack.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
3  Inherited tendencies had combined with early training to make her the highly specialized product she was: an organism as helpless out of its narrow range as the sea-anemone torn from the rock.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
4  He felt the confused titillation with which the lower organisms welcome the gratification of their needs, and all his senses floundered in a vague well-being, through which Miss Bart's personality was dimly but pleasantly perceptible.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
5  On the whole, it was a relief to break away now and then from the Sabrina; and the Duchess's little breakfast, organized by Lord Hubert with all his usual virtuosity, was the pleasanter to Lily for not including her travelling-companions.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
6  The invitation was one which, a year earlier, would have provoked a less ready response, for the party, though organized by Mrs. Fisher, was ostensibly given by a lady of obscure origin and indomitable social ambitions, whose acquaintance Lily had hitherto avoided.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 10
7  Mrs. Bry's TABLEAUX wanted none of the qualities which go to the producing of such illusions, and under Morpeth's organizing hand the pictures succeeded each other with the rhythmic march of some splendid frieze, in which the fugitive curves of living flesh and the wandering light of young eyes have been subdued to plastic harmony without losing the charm of life.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12