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1  Your sister is an amiable creature; but yours is the character of decision and firmness, I see.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
2  I regard Louisa Musgrove as a very amiable, sweet-tempered girl, and not deficient in understanding, but Benwick is something more.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
3  Lady Elliot had been an excellent woman, sensible and amiable; whose judgement and conduct, if they might be pardoned the youthful infatuation which made her Lady Elliot, had never required indulgence afterwards.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
4  Charles Hayter was the eldest of all the cousins, and a very amiable, pleasing young man, between whom and Henrietta there had been a considerable appearance of attachment previous to Captain Wentworth's introduction.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
5  From his wife's account of him she could discern Mr Smith to have been a man of warm feelings, easy temper, careless habits, and not strong understanding, much more amiable than his friend, and very unlike him, led by him, and probably despised by him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
6  It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart, which she could not contemplate without emotions so compounded of pleasure and pain, that she knew not which prevailed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
7  He was steady, observant, moderate, candid; never run away with by spirits or by selfishness, which fancied itself strong feeling; and yet, with a sensibility to what was amiable and lovely, and a value for all the felicities of domestic life, which characters of fancied enthusiasm and violent agitation seldom really possess.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16