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1  I don't mean, literally, to take the next train.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
2  "It would not take more than six dozen to fill that bowl," she argued.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
3  For in the last year she had found that her hostesses expected her to take a place at the card-table.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
4  He responded joyfully that to do so was his mission in life, and asked what form the rescue was to take.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  His smile deepened as he added with increasing assurance: "But you must let me take you to the station."
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
6  The sound of wheels roused her from these musings, and leaning behind her shutters she saw the omnibus take up its freight.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
7  It seems she goes to a new man in Paris, who won't take an order till his client has spent a day with him at his villa at Neuilly.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
8  Selden glanced at her with amusement: it was impossible, even with her lovely eyes imploring him, to take a sentimental view of her case.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
9  Beyond this, Mrs. Peniston had not felt called upon to do anything for her charge: she had simply stood aside and let her take the field.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  But in spite of her efforts, conversation flagged after the tray had been removed, and she was driven to take a fresh measurement of Mr. Gryce's limitations.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
11  She knew that such emotions leave lines on the face as well as in the character, and she had meant to take warning by the little creases which her midnight survey had revealed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
12  But the mere thought of that other woman, who could take a man up and toss him aside as she willed, without having to regard him as a possible factor in her plans, filled Lily Bart with envy.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
13  She knew that to betray any sense of superiority was a subtler form of the stupidity her mother denounced, and it did not take her long to learn that a beauty needs more tact than the possessor of an average set of features.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
14  It was characteristic of her to take a sentimental and unenvious interest in all the details of a wedding: she was the kind of person who always kept her handkerchief out during the service, and departed clutching a box of wedding-cake.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
15  She had just time to take her seat before the train started; but having arranged herself in her corner with the instinctive feeling for effect which never forsook her, she glanced about in the hope of seeing some other member of the Trenors' party.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
16  She understood only that her modest investments were to be mysteriously multiplied without risk to herself; and the assurance that this miracle would take place within a short time, that there would be no tedious interval for suspense and reaction, relieved her of her lingering scruples.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 7
17  She had an idea that the sight of her in a grey gown of devotional cut, with her famous lashes drooped above a prayer-book, would put the finishing touch to Mr. Gryce's subjugation, and render inevitable a certain incident which she had resolved should form a part of the walk they were to take together after luncheon.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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