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  • Louise reminded me of Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre, it was called.†   (source)
  • "Everything of Jane Austen, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre, and all of Dickens and Shakespeare's plays except Coriolanus, because everyone kills everyone, but I know Midsummer Night's Dream almost by heart.†   (source)
  • A Study in Scarlet has only a few bent pages but Jane Eyre has a wretched tear in it.†   (source)
  • This was the age of Jane Eyre, whom we all remember refused to accept Mr. Rochester's generous offer to make over her wardrobe, preferring merino wool to the silk organzas he ordered for her.†   (source)
  • The novels of her girlhood that had stayed on in her imagination, besides those of Dickens and Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson, were Jane Eyre, Trilby, The Woman in White, Green Mansions, King Solomon's Mines.†   (source)
  • "I don't need any help with Jane Eyre because I'm not going to read it."†   (source)
  • There was going to be a storm and it was a perfect night for rereading Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I thought of Jane Eyre standing on her stool, everyone looking at her.†   (source)
  • You know how many words in Jane Eyre have more syllables than any word has a right to?†   (source)
  • When Mrs. Daugherty saw Jane Eyre, she said, "Do you like to read?"†   (source)
  • Can you imagine Joe Pepitone buying tickets to Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • I headed to Mrs. Verne's class looking at the next few pages of Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • Can you imagine anyone buying tickets to Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • The periodic table and Jane Eyre and even the location of the Brown Pelican.†   (source)
  • I flipped through the pages of Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • When I delivered Mrs. Mason's groceries, she saw that I had Jane Eyre stuck under my arm.†   (source)
  • "Jane Eyre is falling in love with Mr. Rochester," she said.†   (source)
  • "I don't know if I want to read Jane Eyre out loud."†   (source)
  • "That," she said, "is a first edition of Jane Eyre."†   (source)
  • When Mr. Loeffler saw Jane Eyre, he said, "You poor kid."†   (source)
  • "When all this is over," she said, "we're going to Broadway and see Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I never would have thought I'd like a book called Jane Eyre," I told Will, changing the subject.†   (source)
  • I hurried over to make sure she hadn't hurt herself, but she said, "Jane Eyre!†   (source)
  • Will flipped his copy of Jane Eyre over in his lap, waiting.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre, staggering across the heath.†   (source)
  • During grace, Bailey stood in the doorway, a figure of obedience, but I knew his mind was on Tom Sawyer and Jim as mine would have been on Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, but for the glittering eyes of wizened old Mr. Taylor.†   (source)
  • But Vivian does…"Stealing Jane Eyre!"†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • Pots rattled in the kitchen where Momma was frying corn cakes to go with vegetable soup for supper, and the homey sounds and scents cushioned me as I read of Jane Eyre in the cold English mansion of a colder English gentleman.†   (source)
  • She hasn't bothered to crack it yet, mainly because it seems like homework for a job that's already punishment, but also because she's rereading Jane Eyre for English class (ironically, the teacher, Mrs. Tate, handed out school-issued copies the week after Molly tried to pilfer it) and that book is huge.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • And of course, I did a few pages of Jane Eyre, who was settling in at Mr. Rochester's house even though he hadn't shown up yet.†   (source)
  • We didn't talk about Jane Eyre anymore.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre still hadn't figured out that she was in love with Mr. Rochester, and I mean, how many more clues do you need?†   (source)
  • Mr. Powell was trying to get ahead on his cataloging so that Mrs. Merriam wouldn't fuss at him, and Lil was speeding ahead on Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • I sounded out words from Jane Eyre—the paperback edition, not the first edition—all the way back into town.†   (source)
  • However, since it is you and not Coach Reed, perhaps we can put the time to some good use, as you seem to have given up on Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • When Jane Eyre came to look at my book —which happened to be Our Town—I handed it to her just right.†   (source)
  • And I know you think you know why I don't want to read Jane Eyre, but it's not really any of your business, is it?†   (source)
  • I put the first edition of Jane Eyre back on the shelf, and slid all three books in carefully because I guess it was all-fired important.†   (source)
  • Douglas, do you think that Jane Eyre should feel guilty for not being able to save Helen Burns from dying?†   (source)
  • "Remember," Mrs. Windermere said —people were starting to tie my hair up into a bun — "Jane Eyre will walk across the stage and address you.†   (source)
  • I flipped through Jane Eyre again.†   (source)
  • On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and I'm not lying, there were plenty.†   (source)
  • Miss Cowper still hadn't made us start stupid Jane Eyre, so we had all 160 pages to look forward to—not that it mattered, because I wasn't going to read it.†   (source)
  • Miss Cowper in English, whose first words were "This fall, we will be reading Jane Eyre by Miss Charlotte Bronte, and I am not naive enough to believe that you will all like it."†   (source)
  • When the cast of Jane Eyre heard me shriek from offstage for the very first time, they all looked around to see who had done it, and then they started clapping.†   (source)
  • And then we opened up Jane Eyre and picked out words that pretty much looked impossible but we figured them out because of what we were learning about letters and their sounds working together.†   (source)
  • 'Jane Eyre," he said again.†   (source)
  • I could hear Mrs. Windermere typing—probably Jane Eyre was falling in love with Mr. Rochester right there in her typewriter—and so I put away the groceries and took two cups down from the cupboard and poured the coffee and brought the cups into her study.†   (source)
  • But you might say that we were both more than a little happy, mostly because Mr. Gregory had called Jane Eyre a smash, and told us it was going to have a long run, and so Mrs. Windermere was flying high.†   (source)
  • "With Jane Eyre," he said.†   (source)
  • In English, when we got to Chapter 38 of Jane Eyre—which I had read twice already because of Miss Cowper's County Literacy Unit Miss Cowper turned to me and said, "Let's have Douglas finish the novel for us," and I looked at her, and I started to sweat, and I looked down at the page.†   (source)
  • A week later, while we were taking another try at the puffins—you can't believe how hard it is to make a puffin not look like a chump— I told Mr. Powell about Miss Cowper and Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • When the period was almost over and Miss Cowper said, "We'll have five more new readers tomorrow," like she was promising a gift or something, I figured I'd better talk to her—because, you remember, I wasn't going to read Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • And Miss Cowper—and you may think I'm lying here, but I'm not—Miss Cowper didn't look at me until the end of class, just before the bell was about to ring and Jane Eyre was about to leave Lowood Institution.†   (source)
  • Tuesday was a little better, even though that morning in English we finally started reading Jane Eyre, by Miss Charlotte Bronte, which we were likely to be reading for a whole long time, since it was 160 pages long even in the abridgment, as you might remember.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Loeffler, who was reading Jane Eyre because he said I inspired him, liked to tell me that I should see the movie with Orson Welles sometime, and then he'd act out a scene or two and we'd start to laugh because Mr. Loeffler is no actor, and I'm not lying.†   (source)
  • I think Mr. Ferris told Miss Cowper, because in English on Wednesday, we all opened up Jane Eyre and Miss Cowper read her five minutes and then she called on Glenn Thomas, who was probably surprised but he didn't say anything and got right to it.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • When I told her that the only people who read Jane Eyre were people who had to because their English teachers made them read it and no one in their right mind was going to pay good money to sit in front of a stage and have all this acted out, she sipped her coffee and said, "Skinny Delivery Boy, I'm not even finished with it and people are already lining up to buy tickets."†   (source)
  • But this is Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • 'Jane Eyre," he said.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • We'd just finished reading Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • Like Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • It was about half the length of JANE EYRE.†   (source)
  • And I read how Jane Eyre used to go up on to the roof when Mrs Fairfax was making jellies and looked over the fields at the distant view.†   (source)
  • Now, in the passages I have quoted from JANE EYRE, it is clear that anger was tampering with the integrity of Charlotte Brontë the novelist.†   (source)
  • But I doubt whether that was true of Charlotte Brontë, I said, opening JANE EYRE and laying it beside PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.†   (source)
  • But how would all this be affected by the sex of the novelist, I wondered, looking at JANE EYRE and the others.†   (source)
  • But they were not granted; they were withheld; and we must accept the fact that all those good novels, VILLETTE, EMMA, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, MIDDLEMARCH, were written by women without more experience of life than could enter the house of a respectable clergyman; written too in the common sitting-room of that respectable house and by women so poor that they could not afford to buy more than a few quires of paper at a time upon which to write WUTHERING HEIGHTS or JANE EYRE.†   (source)
  • "In the name of all the elves in Christendom, is that Jane Eyre?" he demanded.†   (source)
  • When we parted, she said: "Good-bye, cousin Jane Eyre; I wish you well: you have some sense."†   (source)
  • Well, Jane Eyre, and are you a good child?†   (source)
  • "My dear master," I answered, "I am Jane Eyre: I have found you out — I am come back to you."†   (source)
  • "Is there a little girl called Jane Eyre here?" she asked.†   (source)
  • Jewels for Jane Eyre sounds unnatural and strange: I would rather not have them.†   (source)
  • Well, you have been crying, Miss Jane Eyre; can you tell me what about?†   (source)
  • And yet where was the Jane Eyre of yesterday?†   (source)
  • Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself.†   (source)
  • "I came on purpose to find you, Jane Eyre," said she; "I want you in my room; and as Helen Burns is with you, she may come too."†   (source)
  • How dare you affirm that, Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • "Briggs wrote to me of a Jane Eyre:" he said, "the advertisements demanded a Jane Eyre: I knew a Jane Elliott.†   (source)
  • It was short, and thus conceived: "Madam, — Will you have the goodness to send me the address of my niece, Jane Eyre, and to tell me how she is?†   (source)
  • I wrote to him; I said I was sorry for his disappointment, but Jane Eyre was dead: she had died of typhus fever at Lowood.†   (source)
  • I wished to see Jane Eyre, and I fancy a likeness where none exists: besides, in eight years she must be so changed.†   (source)
  • "And then you won't know me, sir; and I shall not be your Jane Eyre any longer, but an ape in a harlequin's jacket — a jay in borrowed plumes.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate.†   (source)
  • Finally, I have alluded to Mr. Thackeray, because to him — if he will accept the tribute of a total stranger — I have dedicated this second edition of "JANE EYRE."†   (source)
  • He got up, held it close to my eyes: and I read, traced in Indian ink, in my own handwriting, the words "JANE EYRE" — the work doubtless of some moment of abstraction.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre," was all he said.†   (source)
  • It was only yesterday morning, however, that Bessie understood she was pronouncing your name; and at last she made out the words, 'Bring Jane — fetch Jane Eyre: I want to speak to her.'†   (source)
  • " "This is the state of things I quite approve," returned Mrs. Reed; "had I sought all England over, I could scarcely have found a system more exactly fitting a child like Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.†   (source)
  • "Is this Jane Eyre?" she said.†   (source)
  • You are not one of the Gibsons; and yet I know you — that face, and the eyes and forehead, are quiet familiar to me: you are like — why, you are like Jane Eyre!†   (source)
  • "Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence: tomorrow, place the glass before you, and draw in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without softening one defect; omit no harsh line, smooth away no displeasing irregularity; write under it, 'Portrait of a Governess, disconnected, poor, and plain.'†   (source)
  • I mean the timorous or carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as "Jane Eyre:" in whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in each protest against bigotry — that parent of crime — an insult to piety, that regent of God on earth.†   (source)
  • NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION I avail myself of the opportunity which a third edition of "Jane Eyre" affords me, of again addressing a word to the Public, to explain that my claim to the title of novelist rests on this one work alone.†   (source)
  • Miss Temple, having assembled the whole school, announced that inquiry had been made into the charges alleged against Jane Eyre, and that she was most happy to be able to pronounce her completely cleared from every imputation.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte PREFACE A preface to the first edition of "Jane Eyre" being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark.†   (source)
  • Are you Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • Yes, sir, Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre, sir.†   (source)
  • Your name is Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • Eyre — Jane Eyre.†   (source)
  • "It is Jane Eyre, sir."†   (source)
  • I heard him in a blubbering tone commence the tale of how "that nasty Jane Eyre" had flown at him like a mad cat: he was stopped rather harshly — "Don't talk to me about her, John: I told you not to go near her; she is not worthy of notice; I do not choose that either you or your sisters should associate with her."†   (source)
  • Jane Eyre!†   (source)
  • …since last night — of the general state of mind in which I had indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told, in her own quiet way a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal; — I pronounced judgment to this effect: That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.†   (source)
  • And this is Jane Eyre?†   (source)
  • I am Jane Eyre.†   (source)
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