 Ware!' cried Grace. The three gentlemen retreated simultaneously. Mr Rochester flung me behind him; the lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling...  Jane Eyre - Page 311de Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 483 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1859 - 684 pages
...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides : t, life, fire, feeling, that I desired and had not...to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tran well- pi anted blow ; • but he would not stride : he would only wrestle. At last he mastered her... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides : she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells, and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1890 - 494 pages
...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 568 pages
...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 pages
...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 460 pages
...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equaling her husband, and corpulent besides : she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 400 pages
...they struggled. She was a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides : she showed virile force in the contest — more than...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells, and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators... | |
 | James B. Twitchell - 1981 - 236 pages
...lunatic sprang and grappled his throat viciously, and laid her teeth to his cheek: they struggled. ... At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him...bound her to a chair. The operation was performed amidst the fiercest yells, and the most convulsive plunges. Mr. Rochester then turned to the spectators:... | |
 | Sandra M. Gilbert, Susan Gubar - 1988 - 346 pages
...Bronte notes that she was "a big woman, in stature almost equalling her husband, and corpulent besides: she showed virile force in the contest — more than...once she almost throttled him, athletic as he was" (ch. 26). In this scene, moreover, as in her earlier attack on her brother Richard, Bertha bites "like... | |
 | Kate Lawson, Lynn Shakinovsky - 2002 - 216 pages
...sensibly appalled by Bertha Mason's violence, is also seemingly impressed by Rochester's self-control: "He could have settled her with a well-planted blow; but he would not strike: he would only wrestle" (321). Gilbert and Gubar's analysis of the Janus-faced angel in the house thus invites readers to pay... | |
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