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1  Elizabeth accepted their company, and the three young ladies set off together.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  My conduct may, I fear, be objectionable in having accepted my dismission from your daughter's lips instead of your own.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
3  I am much obliged to your ladyship for your kind invitation," replied Elizabeth, "but it is not in my power to accept it.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 37
4  I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
5  Mr. Bennet accepted the challenge, observing that he acted very wisely in leaving the girls to their own trifling amusements.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
6  Mr. Bingley was obliged to be in town the following day, and, consequently, unable to accept the honour of their invitation, etc.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
7  The strangeness of Mr. Collins's making two offers of marriage within three days was nothing in comparison of his being now accepted.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
8  Mr. Wickham's happiness and her own were perforce delayed a little longer, and Mr. Collins's proposal accepted with as good a grace as she could.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
9  Mrs. Bennet wished to understand by it that he thought of paying his addresses to one of her younger girls, and Mary might have been prevailed on to accept him.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
10  Mr. Denny addressed them directly, and entreated permission to introduce his friend, Mr. Wickham, who had returned with him the day before from town, and he was happy to say had accepted a commission in their corps.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
11  Miss Bingley offered her the carriage, and she only wanted a little pressing to accept it, when Jane testified such concern in parting with her, that Miss Bingley was obliged to convert the offer of the chaise to an invitation to remain at Netherfield for the present.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
12  When those dances were over, she returned to Charlotte Lucas, and was in conversation with her, when she found herself suddenly addressed by Mr. Darcy who took her so much by surprise in his application for her hand, that, without knowing what she did, she accepted him.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
13  Miss Bennet accepted her aunt's invitation with pleasure; and the Bingleys were no otherwise in her thoughts at the same time, than as she hoped by Caroline's not living in the same house with her brother, she might occasionally spend a morning with her, without any danger of seeing him.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
14  Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44
15  The stupidity with which he was favoured by nature must guard his courtship from any charm that could make a woman wish for its continuance; and Miss Lucas, who accepted him solely from the pure and disinterested desire of an establishment, cared not how soon that establishment were gained.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
16  I am not now to learn," replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second, or even a third time.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
17  Bingley, from this time, was of course a daily visitor at Longbourn; coming frequently before breakfast, and always remaining till after supper; unless when some barbarous neighbour, who could not be enough detested, had given him an invitation to dinner which he thought himself obliged to accept.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 55
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