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1  They were now able to speak to each other and consult.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
2  She could soon sit upright on the sofa, and began to hope she might be able to leave it by dinner-time.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
3  If I were to shut myself up for ever with the child, I should not be able to persuade him to do anything he did not like.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  Her mother could even think of her being able to join their party at home, before her brothers and sisters went to school again.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
5  You will soon be able to judge of the general credit due, by listening to some particulars which you can yourself immediately contradict or confirm.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
6  She could not keep her appointment punctually, however; the weather was unfavourable, and she had grieved over the rain on her friends' account, and felt it very much on her own, before she was able to attempt the walk.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
7  Anne admired the good acting of the friend, in being able to shew such pleasure as she did, in the expectation and in the actual arrival of the very person whose presence must really be interfering with her prime object.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
8  In the first place, I had a note from Mrs Croft yesterday, offering to convey anything to you; a very kind, friendly note indeed, addressed to me, just as it ought; I shall therefore be able to make my letter as long as I like.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
9  She felt herself ill-used and unfortunate, as did her father; and they were neither of them able to devise any means of lessening their expenses without compromising their dignity, or relinquishing their comforts in a way not to be borne.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
10  A few minutes, though as few as possible, were inevitably consumed; and when her own mistress again, when able to turn and look as she had done before, she found herself accosted by Captain Wentworth, in a reserved yet hurried sort of farewell.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
11  That was a point which Anne had not been able to avoid suspecting before; and instead of drawing the same conclusion as Mary, from the present course of events, they served only to confirm the idea of his having felt some dawning of tenderness toward herself.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
12  Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in reply as her own feeling could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject, and when he spoke again, it was of something totally different.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
13  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
14  Lady Russell let this pass, and only said in rejoinder, "I own that to be able to regard you as the future mistress of Kellynch, the future Lady Elliot, to look forward and see you occupying your dear mother's place, succeeding to all her rights, and all her popularity, as well as to all her virtues, would be the highest possible gratification to me."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
15  If he will adopt these regulations, in seven years he will be clear; and I hope we may be able to convince him and Elizabeth, that Kellynch Hall has a respectability in itself which cannot be affected by these reductions; and that the true dignity of Sir Walter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2