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1  Walter," said she, "get down this moment.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  More than I can recollect in a moment; but I can tell you some.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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3  She paused a moment to recover from the emotion of hearing herself so spoken of.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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4  "We have made very few changes either," continued the Admiral, after thinking a moment.
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5  He had thought her wretchedly altered, and in the first moment of appeal, had spoken as he felt.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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6  You can send for us, you know, at a moment's notice, if anything is the matter; but I dare say there will be nothing to alarm you.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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7  She gave a moment's recollection, as they hurried along, to the little circumstances which the same spots had witnessed earlier in the morning.
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8  Mary sat down for a moment, but it would not do; she was sure Louisa had found a better seat somewhere else, and she would go on till she overtook her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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9  When they came to the steps, leading upwards from the beach, a gentleman, at the same moment preparing to come down, politely drew back, and stopped to give them way.
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10  , to have another moment for finishing or recollecting what he had begun, Anne was left to persuade herself, as well as she could, that the same brother must still be in question.
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11  The walking party had crossed the lane, and were surmounting an opposite stile, and the Admiral was putting his horse in motion again, when Captain Wentworth cleared the hedge in a moment to say something to his sister.
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12  There she had listened to Henrietta's schemes for Dr Shirley's leaving Uppercross; farther on, she had first seen Mr Elliot; a moment seemed all that could now be given to any one but Louisa, or those who were wrapt up in her welfare.
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13  She and Mary were actually setting forward for the Great House, where, as she afterwards learnt, they must inevitably have found him, when they were stopped by the eldest boy's being at that moment brought home in consequence of a bad fall.
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14  In another moment, however, she found herself in the state of being released from him; some one was taking him from her, though he had bent down her head so much, that his little sturdy hands were unfastened from around her neck, and he was resolutely borne away, before she knew that Captain Wentworth had done it.
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15  "They are up stairs with my sister: they will be down in a few moments, I dare say," had been Anne's reply, in all the confusion that was natural; and if the child had not called her to come and do something for him, she would have been out of the room the next moment, and released Captain Wentworth as well as herself.
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16  The lawyer plods, quite care-worn; the physician is up at all hours, and travelling in all weather; and even the clergyman--" she stopt a moment to consider what might do for the clergyman;--"and even the clergyman, you know is obliged to go into infected rooms, and expose his health and looks to all the injury of a poisonous atmosphere.
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17  Anne had a moment's astonishment on the subject herself; but it was soon lost in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville, to turn the actual space to the best account, to supply the deficiencies of lodging-house furniture, and defend the windows and doors against the winter storms to be expected.
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