ELIZABETH'S in Classic Quotes

1  Elizabeth's courage did not fail her.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29

2  Elizabeth's astonishment was beyond expression.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34

3  The pause was to Elizabeth's feelings dreadful.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34

4  The tumult of Elizabeth's mind was allayed by this conversation.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40

5  The eldest of them, a sensible, intelligent young woman, about twenty-seven, was Elizabeth's intimate friend.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5

6  Elizabeth's mind was too full for conversation, but she saw and admired every remarkable spot and point of view.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43

7  Her answer, therefore, was not propitious, at least not to Elizabeth's wishes, for she was impatient to get home.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12

8  Lady Catherine continued her remarks on Elizabeth's performance, mixing with them many instructions on execution and taste.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31

9  Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42

10  There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original than she had ever felt at the height of their acquaintance.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43

11  Whilst wandering on in this slow manner, they were again surprised, and Elizabeth's astonishment was quite equal to what it had been at first, by the sight of Mr. Darcy approaching them, and at no great distance.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 43

12  Mrs. Gardiner, to whom the chief of this news had been given before, in the course of Jane and Elizabeth's correspondence with her, made her sister a slight answer, and, in compassion to her nieces, turned the conversation.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25

13  As for Jane, her anxiety under this suspense was, of course, more painful than Elizabeth's, but whatever she felt she was desirous of concealing, and between herself and Elizabeth, therefore, the subject was never alluded to.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23

14  Mr. Collins and Charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation with the ladies; and Sir William, to Elizabeth's high diversion, was stationed in the doorway, in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him, and constantly bowing whenever Miss de Bourgh looked that way.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28

15  She was not rendered formidable by silence; but whatever she said was spoken in so authoritative a tone, as marked her self-importance, and brought Mr. Wickham immediately to Elizabeth's mind; and from the observation of the day altogether, she believed Lady Catherine to be exactly what he represented.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 29

16  Elizabeth's impatience to acquaint Jane with what had happened could no longer be overcome; and at length, resolving to suppress every particular in which her sister was concerned, and preparing her to be surprised, she related to her the next morning the chief of the scene between Mr. Darcy and herself.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 40

17  Elizabeth's eyes were fixed on her with most painful sensations, and she watched her progress through the several stanzas with an impatience which was very ill rewarded at their close; for Mary, on receiving, amongst the thanks of the table, the hint of a hope that she might be prevailed on to favour them again, after the pause of half a minute began another.

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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18