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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 My strength sufficed for but short answers.
2 It was yet night, but July nights are short: soon after midnight, dawn comes.
3 Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly.
4 He drew his breath short, and strained me so close to him, I could scarcely pant.
5 She again put her short black pipe to her lips, and renewed her smoking with vigour.
6 To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known.
7 In short, I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other spoony.
8 However, to please her, I allowed Sophie to apparel her in one of her short, full muslin frocks.
9 I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched.
10 How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation.
11 She was occupied in knitting; a large cat sat demurely at her feet; nothing in short was wanting to complete the beau-ideal of domestic comfort.
12 I made some attempts to draw her into conversation, but she seemed a person of few words: a monosyllabic reply usually cut short every effort of that sort.
13 The best fun was with Madame Joubert: Miss Wilson was a poor sickly thing, lachrymose and low-spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing, in short; and Mrs. Grey was coarse and insensible; no blow took effect on her.
14 I felt the impression of woe as she spoke, but I could not tell whence it came; and when, having done speaking, she breathed a little fast and coughed a short cough, I momentarily forgot my own sorrows to yield to a vague concern for her.
15 In the course of the afternoon and evening these hints were enlarged on: various soft conversations were reported, and sentimental scenes represented; and, in short, a volume of a novel of fashionable life was that day improvised by her for my benefit.
16 A dress of rose-coloured satin, very short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk stockings and small white satin sandals.
17 Even when we finally retired for the night, the inevitable Miss Gryce was still my companion: we had only a short end of candle in our candlestick, and I dreaded lest she should talk till it was all burnt out; fortunately, however, the heavy supper she had eaten produced a soporific effect: she was already snoring before I had finished undressing.
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