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1  She had never in her life been more astonished.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  I have something to communicate that will astonish you not a little.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
3  Anne was astonished to recognise the same hills and the same objects so soon.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
4  He was astonished, indeed, but his character and general conduct must refute it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  In the course of a second visit she talked with great openness, and Anne's astonishment increased.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
6  She was still in the astonishment and confusion excited by her friend's penetration, unable to imagine how any report of Captain Wentworth could have reached her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
7  He had handed them both in, and placed himself between them; and in this manner, under these circumstances, full of astonishment and emotion to Anne, she quitted Lyme.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
8  He had remained in Shropshire, lamenting the blindness of his own pride, and the blunders of his own calculations, till at once released from Louisa by the astonishing and felicitous intelligence of her engagement with Benwick.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
9  Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually withholding his consent, or saying it should never be, gave it all the negative of great astonishment, great coldness, great silence, and a professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
10  She could think only of the invitation she had with such astonishment witnessed, and of the manner in which it had been received; a manner of doubtful meaning, of surprise rather than gratification, of polite acknowledgement rather than acceptance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
11  Anne had a moment's astonishment on the subject herself; but it was soon lost in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville, to turn the actual space to the best account, to supply the deficiencies of lodging-house furniture, and defend the windows and doors against the winter storms to be expected.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11