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1  Ten minutes were enough to certify that.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
2  The first ten minutes had its awkwardness and its emotion.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
3  Half an hour's solitude and reflection might have tranquillized her; but the ten minutes only which now passed before she was interrupted, with all the restraints of her situation, could do nothing towards tranquillity.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
4  It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before; and, generally speaking, if there has been neither ill health nor anxiety, it is a time of life at which scarcely any charm is lost.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
5  He had not seen Louisa; and was so extremely fearful of any ill consequence to her from an interview, that he did not press for it at all; and, on the contrary, seemed to have a plan of going away for a week or ten days, till her head was stronger.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
6  Charles and Mary also came in, of course, during their visit, and Mr Musgrove made a point of paying his respects to Lady Russell, and sat down close to her for ten minutes, talking with a very raised voice, but from the clamour of the children on his knees, generally in vain.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
7  He was now esteemed quite worthy to address the daughter of a foolish, spendthrift baronet, who had not had principle or sense enough to maintain himself in the situation in which Providence had placed him, and who could give his daughter at present but a small part of the share of ten thousand pounds which must be hers hereafter.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
8  He did justice to his very gentlemanlike appearance, his air of elegance and fashion, his good shaped face, his sensible eye; but, at the same time, "must lament his being very much under-hung, a defect which time seemed to have increased; nor could he pretend to say that ten years had not altered almost every feature for the worse."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15