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1  Mr. Crawford must not be kept longer waiting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
2  Lady Bertram seemed quite resigned to waiting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
3  Mr. Crawford has been kept waiting too long already.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
4  "Well," said Sir Thomas, as if waiting more to accomplish the surprise.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  The chief of the party were now collected irregularly round the fire, and waiting the final break-up.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  Tom himself began to fret over the scene-painter's slow progress, and to feel the miseries of waiting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  I came to look for you, and after waiting a little while in hope of your coming in, was making use of your inkstand to explain my errand.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  Fanny was ready and waiting, and Mrs. Norris was beginning to scold her for not being gone, and still no horse was announced, no Edmund appeared.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  She stopt, felt herself getting into a puzzle, and could not be prevailed on to add another word, not by dint of several minutes of supplication and waiting.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  He attended them to the last, and left them only at the door of their own house, when he knew them to be going to dinner, and therefore pretended to be waited for elsewhere.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII
11  He was engaged to dinner already both for that day and the next; he had met with some acquaintance at the Crown who would not be denied; he should have the honour, however, of waiting on them again on the morrow, etc.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  She was almost at the door, and not chusing by any means to take so much trouble in vain, she still went on, after a civil reception, a short sentence about being waited for, and a "Let Sir Thomas know" to the servant.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
13  Unfavourable circumstances had suddenly arisen at a moment when he was beginning to turn all his thoughts towards England; and the very great uncertainty in which everything was then involved determined him on sending home his son, and waiting the final arrangement by himself.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  It will be much the best place for her, so near Miss Lee, and not far from the girls, and close by the housemaids, who could either of them help to dress her, you know, and take care of her clothes, for I suppose you would not think it fair to expect Ellis to wait on her as well as the others.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
15  It came happily while she was thus waiting; and there being neither ceremony nor fearfulness to delay the moment of meeting, she was with him as he entered the house, and the first minutes of exquisite feeling had no interruption and no witnesses, unless the servants chiefly intent upon opening the proper doors could be called such.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
16  All were alert and impatient; the ladies moved soon, the gentlemen soon followed them, and with the exception of Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, and Julia, everybody was in the theatre at an early hour; and having lighted it up as well as its unfinished state admitted, were waiting only the arrival of Mrs. Grant and the Crawfords to begin.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
17  As the horse continued in name, as well as fact, the property of Edmund, Mrs. Norris could tolerate its being for Fanny's use; and had Lady Bertram ever thought about her own objection again, he might have been excused in her eyes for not waiting till Sir Thomas's return in September, for when September came Sir Thomas was still abroad, and without any near prospect of finishing his business.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
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