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1  I should have visited Admiral Croft, however, at any rate.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
2  Admiral Croft's manners were not quite of the tone to suit Lady Russell, but they delighted Anne.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
3  I suspect," said Sir Walter coolly, "that Admiral Croft will be best known in Bath as the renter of Kellynch Hall.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  While Admiral Croft was taking this walk with Anne, and expressing his wish of getting Captain Wentworth to Bath, Captain Wentworth was already on his way thither.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
5  Sir Walter was not very wise; but still he had experience enough of the world to feel, that a more unobjectionable tenant, in all essentials, than Admiral Croft bid fair to be, could hardly offer.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  This long meadow bordered a lane, which their footpath, at the end of it was to cross, and when the party had all reached the gate of exit, the carriage advancing in the same direction, which had been some time heard, was just coming up, and proved to be Admiral Croft's gig.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
7  It seemed as if Mr Shepherd, in this anxiety to bespeak Sir Walter's good will towards a naval officer as tenant, had been gifted with foresight; for the very first application for the house was from an Admiral Croft, with whom he shortly afterwards fell into company in attending the quarter sessions at Taunton; and indeed, he had received a hint of the Admiral from a London correspondent.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3