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1  I am sure you have, somehow or other, imbibed such a notion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  He is so very strict and scrupulous in his notions; over-scrupulous I must say.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  I have really a curiosity to see the person who can give occasion to such directly opposite notions.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
4  I think differently now; time and sickness and sorrow have given me other notions; but at that period I must own I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
5  She was a benevolent, charitable, good woman, and capable of strong attachments, most correct in her conduct, strict in her notions of decorum, and with manners that were held a standard of good-breeding.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
6  The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty," said he, "as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
7  I have had a little knowledge of their methods of doing business; and I am free to confess that they have very liberal notions, and are as likely to make desirable tenants as any set of people one should meet with.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
8  These were her internal persuasions: "Old fashioned notions; country hospitality; we do not profess to give dinners; few people in Bath do; Lady Alicia never does; did not even ask her own sister's family, though they were here a month: and I dare say it would be very inconvenient to Mrs Musgrove; put her quite out of her way."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22