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1  She knew it well; and she remembered another person's look also.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
2  He seemed about thirty, and though not handsome, had an agreeable person.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  You, who have not a mother's feelings, are a great deal the properest person.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  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
5  Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
6  Anne had called several times on her friend, before the existence of such a person was known in Camden Place.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
7  Twelve years were gone since they had parted, and each presented a somewhat different person from what the other had imagined.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
8  Mrs Croft, though neither tall nor fat, had a squareness, uprightness, and vigour of form, which gave importance to her person.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
9  He will sit poring over his book, and not know when a person speaks to him, or when one drop's one's scissors, or anything that happens.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
10  The idea of Louisa Musgrove turned into a person of literary taste, and sentimental reflection was amusing, but she had no doubt of its being so.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
11  She was obliged to kneel down by the sofa, and remain there to satisfy her patient; and thus they continued a few minutes, when, to her very great satisfaction, she heard some other person crossing the little vestibule.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
12  In the course of the same morning, Anne and her father chancing to be alone together, he began to compliment her on her improved looks; he thought her "less thin in her person, in her cheeks; her skin, her complexion, greatly improved; clearer, fresher."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
13  In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove's fond partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any other person's, gave her much more pleasure for their sakes, than mortification for her own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
14  He was quite as good-looking as he had appeared at Lyme, his countenance improved by speaking, and his manners were so exactly what they ought to be, so polished, so easy, so particularly agreeable, that she could compare them in excellence to only one person's manners.
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15  The sight of Mrs Clay in such favour, and of Anne so overlooked, was a perpetual provocation to her there; and vexed her as much when she was away, as a person in Bath who drinks the water, gets all the new publications, and has a very large acquaintance, has time to be vexed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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16  She did not blame Lady Russell, she did not blame herself for having been guided by her; but she felt that were any young person, in similar circumstances, to apply to her for counsel, they would never receive any of such certain immediate wretchedness, such uncertain future good.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
17  The Musgroves could hardly be more ready to invite than he to come, particularly in the morning, when he had no companion at home, for the Admiral and Mrs Croft were generally out of doors together, interesting themselves in their new possessions, their grass, and their sheep, and dawdling about in a way not endurable to a third person, or driving out in a gig, lately added to their establishment.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
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