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1  You promised to show me your work.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXV
2  I promised to lend her the Goncourt.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
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3  Yes, yes," said Edna, rising; "I promised.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXXVI
4  He kissed them and promised to bring them back bonbons and peanuts.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
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5  She promised as those women in society always do, without meaning it.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXI
6  It gave her the promise and pretext to keep the children indefinitely.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXXII
7  They jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid even of hope.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XVII
8  They were delicious February days, with all the summer's promise hovering in the air.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXXII
9  It was not despair; but it seemed to her as if life were passing by, leaving its promise broken and unfulfilled.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXV
10  Yet there were other days when she listened, was led on and deceived by fresh promises which her youth held out to her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
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11  The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XV
12  She left them in heated argument, speculating about the conclusion of the tale which their mother promised to finish the following night.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
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13  She answered the children in a cheerful frame of mind, promising them bonbons, and congratulating them upon their happy find of the little pigs.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
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14  She expressed her gratification by repairing forthwith to the region of the gasoline stove and rewarding her guest with the promised cup of coffee.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
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15  Edna, anxious to entertain him, invited Mademoiselle Reisz to meet him, having promised him a treat in her piano playing; but Mademoiselle declined the invitation.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXIII
16  Madame Ratignolle's sister, who had always been with her at such trying times, had not been able to come up from the plantation, and Adele had been inconsolable until Mrs. Pontellier so kindly promised to come to her.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
ContextHighlight   In XXXVII