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1  It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 54
2  Mr. Darcy's shameful boast of what misery he had been able to inflict, gave her a keener sense of her sister's sufferings.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 34
3  Our situation with regard to Lady Catherine's family is indeed the sort of extraordinary advantage and blessing which few can boast.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 38
4  After a few minutes' reflection, however, she continued, "I do remember his boasting one day, at Netherfield, of the implacability of his resentments, of his having an unforgiving temper."
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
5  Her many attractions were again dwelt on, and Caroline boasted joyfully of their increasing intimacy, and ventured to predict the accomplishment of the wishes which had been unfolded in her former letter.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  The indirect boast; for you are really proud of your defects in writing, because you consider them as proceeding from a rapidity of thought and carelessness of execution, which, if not estimable, you think at least highly interesting.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
7  But of all the views which his garden, or which the country or kingdom could boast, none were to be compared with the prospect of Rosings, afforded by an opening in the trees that bordered the park nearly opposite the front of his house.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
8  She longed to see Mrs. Phillips, the Lucases, and all their other neighbours, and to hear herself called "Mrs. Wickham" by each of them; and in the mean time, she went after dinner to show her ring, and boast of being married, to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 51