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The Lintons was the classic case of a modernist estate that arrived with great optimism and promises of a better life.
Evening Standard - Home Kieran Long 2011
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Neil Patel's set and Robert Wierzel's lighting used simple, open structures to differentiate Wuthering Heights (rough) and the Lintons' Thrushcross Grange (elegant); Jane Greenwood designed the period costumes.
An Artifact of Indulgence From Bernard Herrmann Heidi Waleson 2011
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According to Captain Garth, recapping with the Lintons post hoc,
Espionage 2009
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According to Captain Garth, recapping with the Lintons post hoc,
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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At last, our curate (we had a curate then who made the living answer by teaching the little Lintons and Earnshaws, and farming his bit of land himself) advised that the young man should be sent to college; and Mr. Earnshaw agreed, though with a heavy spirit, for he said — “Hindley was nought, and would never thrive as where he wandered.”
Wuthering Heights 2002
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He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices; not from affection, but from pride: he wished earnestly to see her bring honour to the family by an alliance with the Lintons, and as long as she let him alone she might trample on us like slaves, for aught he cared!
Wuthering Heights 2002
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He ran to the window and I to the door, just in time to behold the two Lintons descend from the family carriage, smothered in cloaks and furs, and the Earnshaws dismount from their horses: they often rode to church in winter.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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Afterwards, they dried and combed her beautiful hair, and gave her a pair of enormous slippers, and wheeled her to the fire; and I left her, as merry as she could be, dividing her food between the little dog and Skulker, whose nose she pinched as he ate; and kindling a spark of spirit in the vacant blue eyes of the Lintons — a dim reflection from her own enchanting face.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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Seeing the Lintons and the Greggs arrive, he craftily awaited his opportunity, and slipped off, to give them a turn on the gridiron.
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The Lintons and Greggs are people of the world, who would hardly have cared to wait for a blessing on such lovely heaps of strawberries and mugs of cream as they saw before them; but, there being two clergymen at the table, the ceremony was evidently expected.
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