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1  For you alone, I think and plan.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  You alone have brought me to Bath.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
3  But hardly were they so settled, when the door opened again, and Captain Wentworth walked in alone.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
4  Anne's shudderings were to herself alone; but the Miss Musgroves could be as open as they were sincere, in their exclamations of pity and horror.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  But he must not be addressing his reflections to Anne alone: he knew it; he was soon diffused again among the others, and it was only at intervals that he could return to Lyme.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
6  Yes, I made the best of it; I always do: but I was very far from well at the time; and I do not think I ever was so ill in my life as I have been all this morning: very unfit to be left alone, I am sure.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  In the course of the same morning, Anne and her father chancing to be alone together, he began to compliment her on her improved looks; he thought her "less thin in her person, in her cheeks; her skin, her complexion, greatly improved; clearer, fresher."
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
8  Had he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the independence which alone had been wanting.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
9  In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world; and Mr and Mrs Musgrove's fond partiality for their own daughters' performance, and total indifference to any other person's, gave her much more pleasure for their sakes, than mortification for her own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
10  The two families were so continually meeting, so much in the habit of running in and out of each other's house at all hours, that it was rather a surprise to her to find Mary alone; but being alone, her being unwell and out of spirits was almost a matter of course.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
11  The surprise of finding himself almost alone with Anne Elliot, deprived his manners of their usual composure: he started, and could only say, "I thought the Miss Musgroves had been here: Mrs Musgrove told me I should find them here," before he walked to the window to recollect himself, and feel how he ought to behave.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
12  A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17