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1  This lock of hair, which now he can so readily give up, was begged of me with the most earnest supplication.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
2  The two grandmothers, with not less partiality, but more sincerity, were equally earnest in support of their own descendant.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34
3  Much as she had suffered from her first conversation with Lucy on the subject, she soon felt an earnest wish of renewing it; and this for more reasons than one.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 23
4  They had not remained in this manner long, before Elinor perceived Willoughby, standing within a few yards of them, in earnest conversation with a very fashionable looking young woman.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28
5  Her sister's earnest, though gentle persuasion, however, soon softened her to compliance, and Elinor saw her lay her aching head on the pillow, and as she hoped, in a way to get some quiet rest before she left her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 30
6  Willoughby was all that her fancy had delineated in that unhappy hour and in every brighter period, as capable of attaching her; and his behaviour declared his wishes to be in that respect as earnest, as his abilities were strong.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10
7  Edward made no answer; but when she had turned away her head, gave her a look so serious, so earnest, so uncheerful, as seemed to say, that he might hereafter wish the distance between the parsonage and the mansion-house much greater.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 40
8  Marianne was vexed at it for her sister's sake, and turned her eyes towards Elinor to see how she bore these attacks, with an earnestness which gave Elinor far more pain than could arise from such common-place raillery as Mrs. Jennings's.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7
9  He really pressed them, with some earnestness, to consider Norland as their home; and, as no plan appeared so eligible to Mrs. Dashwood as remaining there till she could accommodate herself with a house in the neighbourhood, his invitation was accepted.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  Mrs. Dashwood was acting on motives of policy as well as pleasure in the frequency of her visits at Delaford; for her wish of bringing Marianne and Colonel Brandon together was hardly less earnest, though rather more liberal than what John had expressed.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50
11  Elinor was very earnest in her application to her mother, relating all that had passed, her suspicions of Willoughby's inconstancy, urging her by every plea of duty and affection to demand from Marianne an account of her real situation with respect to him.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27
12  He heard her with the most earnest attention, but seeming to recollect himself, said no more on the subject, and began directly to speak of his pleasure at seeing them in London, making the usual inquiries about their journey, and the friends they had left behind.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
13  Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
14  Elinor did not offer to detain him; and they parted, with a very earnest assurance on HER side of her unceasing good wishes for his happiness in every change of situation that might befall him; on HIS, with rather an attempt to return the same good will, than the power of expressing it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 40
15  He said much of his earnest desire of their living in the most sociable terms with his family, and pressed them so cordially to dine at Barton Park every day till they were better settled at home, that, though his entreaties were carried to a point of perseverance beyond civility, they could not give offence.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6
16  She blushed at this hint; but it was even visibly gratifying to her; and after a ten minutes' interval of earnest thought, she came to her sister again, and said with great good humour, "Perhaps, Elinor, it WAS rather ill-judged in me to go to Allenham; but Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; and it is a charming house, I assure you."
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
17  The whole of Lucy's behaviour in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may be apparently obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50
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