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1  He delighted in being asked, but he would not tell.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
2  He was not only pardoned, they were delighted with him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
3  In all their walks, he had had to jump her from the stiles; the sensation was delightful to her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
4  Admiral Croft's manners were not quite of the tone to suit Lady Russell, but they delighted Anne.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
5  Her brother and sister came back delighted with their new acquaintance, and their visit in general.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  There was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or delight, at the evil or good of others.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
7  Her kind, compassionate visits to this old schoolfellow, sick and reduced, seemed to have quite delighted Mr Elliot.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
8  Charles gave it for Louisa, Mary for Henrietta, but quite agreeing that to have him marry either could be extremely delightful.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
9  Anne kept her appointment; the others kept theirs, and of course she heard the next morning that they had had a delightful evening.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
10  The delightful emotions were a little subdued, when on stepping back from the group, to be joined again by Captain Wentworth, she saw that he was gone.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
11  Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
12  Mary, very much gratified by this attention, was delighted to receive him, while a thousand feelings rushed on Anne, of which this was the most consoling, that it would soon be over.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
13  The others returned, the room filled again, benches were reclaimed and repossessed, and another hour of pleasure or of penance was to be sat out, another hour of music was to give delight or the gapes, as real or affected taste for it prevailed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
14  Their last meeting had been most important in opening his feelings; she had derived from it a delightful conviction; but she feared from his looks, that the same unfortunate persuasion, which had hastened him away from the Concert Room, still governed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
15  Mr Elliot had called repeatedly, had dined with them once, evidently delighted by the distinction of being asked, for they gave no dinners in general; delighted, in short, by every proof of cousinly notice, and placing his whole happiness in being on intimate terms in Camden Place.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
16  She played a great deal better than either of the Miss Musgroves, but having no voice, no knowledge of the harp, and no fond parents, to sit by and fancy themselves delighted, her performance was little thought of, only out of civility, or to refresh the others, as she was well aware.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
17  He had spent his whole solitary evening in the room adjoining theirs; had heard voices, mirth continually; thought they must be a most delightful set of people, longed to be with them, but certainly without the smallest suspicion of his possessing the shadow of a right to introduce himself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
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