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1  In a moment she perceived that the others were likewise aware of the mistake.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48
2  Some people imagine that there can be no accommodations, no space in a cottage; but this is all a mistake.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
3  Yet, though smiling within herself at the mistake, she honoured her sister for that blind partiality to Edward which produced it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
4  Then taking a small miniature from her pocket, she added, "To prevent the possibility of mistake, be so good as to look at this face."
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
5  I shall never reflect on my former acquaintance with your family in Devonshire without the most grateful pleasure, and flatter myself it will not be broken by any mistake or misapprehension of my actions.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
6  The consideration of Mrs. Dennison's mistake, in supposing his sisters their guests, had suggested the propriety of their being really invited to become such, while Mrs. Jennings's engagements kept her from home.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
7  I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes," said Elinor, "in a total misapprehension of character in some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why or in what the deception originated.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17
8  That some kind of engagement had subsisted between Willoughby and Marianne she could not doubt, and that Willoughby was weary of it, seemed equally clear; for however Marianne might still feed her own wishes, SHE could not attribute such behaviour to mistake or misapprehension of any kind.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28