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1  This was a cruel aggravation of actually straitened means.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
2  Since he actually was expected in the country, she must teach herself to be insensible on such points.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
3  Their actual speed, heightened by some dread of the conclusion, made the road appear but half as long as on the day before.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
4  They were actually on the same sofa, for Mrs Musgrove had most readily made room for him; they were divided only by Mrs Musgrove.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  She was actually forced to exert herself to meet Lady Russell with anything like the appearance of equal solicitude, on topics which had by nature the first claim on her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
6  He was rich, and being turned on shore, fully intended to settle as soon as he could be properly tempted; actually looking round, ready to fall in love with all the speed which a clear head and a quick taste could allow.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
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  She and Mary were actually setting forward for the Great House, where, as she afterwards learnt, they must inevitably have found him, when they were stopped by the eldest boy's being at that moment brought home in consequence of a bad fall.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
9  Sir Walter, on being applied to, without actually withholding his consent, or saying it should never be, gave it all the negative of great astonishment, great coldness, great silence, and a professed resolution of doing nothing for his daughter.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
10  Anne had a moment's astonishment on the subject herself; but it was soon lost in the pleasanter feelings which sprang from the sight of all the ingenious contrivances and nice arrangements of Captain Harville, to turn the actual space to the best account, to supply the deficiencies of lodging-house furniture, and defend the windows and doors against the winter storms to be expected.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11