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1  Mary talked, but she could not attend.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  They talked of coming into this side of the country.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
3  When he talked, she heard the same voice, and discerned the same mind.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  Mr Elliot, and his friends in Marlborough Buildings, were talked of the whole evening.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  In the course of a second visit she talked with great openness, and Anne's astonishment increased.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
6  He was invited to Kellynch Hall; he was talked of and expected all the rest of the year; but he never came.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
7  He was not at all ashamed of the acquaintance, and did, in fact, think and talk a great deal more about the Admiral, than the Admiral ever thought or talked about him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
8  That he was a sensible man, an agreeable man, that he talked well, professed good opinions, seemed to judge properly and as a man of principle, this was all clear enough.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
9  To her, its greatest interest must be, in having been very much talked of between her friend and Mr Elliot; in having been wished for, regretted, and at the same time honoured for staying away in such a cause.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
10  He had talked of going down to Plymouth for a week, and wanted to persuade Captain Benwick to go with him; but, as Charles maintained to the last, Captain Benwick seemed much more disposed to ride over to Kellynch.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
11  She should put it off as long as she could; but was not easy till she had talked Charles into driving her over on an early day, and was in a very animated, comfortable state of imaginary agitation, when she came back.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
12  He had even refused one regular invitation to dinner; and having been found on the occasion by Mr Musgrove with some large books before him, Mr and Mrs Musgrove were sure all could not be right, and talked, with grave faces, of his studying himself to death.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
13  Her eye half met Captain Wentworth's, a bow, a curtsey passed; she heard his voice; he talked to Mary, said all that was right, said something to the Miss Musgroves, enough to mark an easy footing; the room seemed full, full of persons and voices, but a few minutes ended it.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
14  Lady Russell had not been arrived five minutes the day before, when a full account of the whole had burst on her; but still it must be talked of, she must make enquiries, she must regret the imprudence, lament the result, and Captain Wentworth's name must be mentioned by both.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
15  They visited in Laura Place, they had the cards of Dowager Viscountess Dalrymple, and the Honourable Miss Carteret, to be arranged wherever they might be most visible: and "Our cousins in Laura Place,"--"Our cousin, Lady Dalrymple and Miss Carteret," were talked of to everybody.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
16  He looked very well, not as if he had been suffering in health or spirits, and he talked of Uppercross, of the Musgroves, nay, even of Louisa, and had even a momentary look of his own arch significance as he named her; but yet it was Captain Wentworth not comfortable, not easy, not able to feign that he was.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
17  Most earnestly did she wish that he might not be too nice, or too observant if Elizabeth were his object; and that Elizabeth was disposed to believe herself so, and that her friend Mrs Clay was encouraging the idea, seemed apparent by a glance or two between them, while Mr Elliot's frequent visits were talked of.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
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