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1 The young ladies went, and Lady Middleton was happily preserved from the frightful solitude which had threatened her.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 23
2 Mrs. Dashwood felt too much for speech, and instantly quitted the parlour to give way in solitude to the concern and alarm which this sudden departure occasioned.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 15
3 There were moments in abundance, when, if not by the absence of her mother and sisters, at least by the nature of their employments, conversation was forbidden among them, and every effect of solitude was produced.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 19
4 Elinor would not attempt to disturb a solitude so reasonable as what she now sought; and with a mind anxiously pre-arranging its result, and a resolution of reviving the subject again, should Marianne fail to do it, she turned into the parlour to fulfill her parting injunction.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 46
5 But as it was her determination to subdue it, and to prevent herself from appearing to suffer more than what all her family suffered on his going away, she did not adopt the method so judiciously employed by Marianne, on a similar occasion, to augment and fix her sorrow, by seeking silence, solitude and idleness.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 19
6 In such circumstances, it was better for both that they should not be long together; and the restless state of Marianne's mind not only prevented her from remaining in the room a moment after she was dressed, but requiring at once solitude and continual change of place, made her wander about the house till breakfast time, avoiding the sight of every body.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 29
7 In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony to be at Cleveland; and as she returned by a different circuit to the house, feeling all the happy privilege of country liberty, of wandering from place to place in free and luxurious solitude, she resolved to spend almost every hour of every day while she remained with the Palmers, in the indulgence of such solitary rambles.
Sense and SensibilityBy Jane Austen ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42