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1  NOW he felt astonished himself that he had never yet been to the place.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49
2  Her astonishment and confusion were very great on his so sudden appearance.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 40
3  Mrs. Dashwood was too much astonished to speak, and another pause succeeded.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
4  At these words, Marianne's eyes expressed the astonishment which her lips could not utter.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
5  Marianne was astonished to find how much the imagination of her mother and herself had outstripped the truth.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4
6  Marianne lifted up her eyes in astonishment, and Elinor conjectured that she might as well have held her tongue.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
7  I am sorry I do NOT," said Elinor, in great astonishment, "if it could be of any use to YOU to know my opinion of her.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22
8  Elinor's astonishment at this commission could hardly have been greater, had the Colonel been really making her an offer of his hand.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 39
9  But before she was half way upstairs she heard the parlour door open, and, turning round, was astonished to see Edward himself come out.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18
10  John Dashwood was greatly astonished; but his nature was calm, not open to provocation, and he never wished to offend anybody, especially anybody of good fortune.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 37
11  Mrs. Palmer laughed heartily at the recollection of their astonishment, and every body agreed, two or three times over, that it had been quite an agreeable surprise.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19
12  I cannot express my disappointment in having missed you the day before yesterday, nor my astonishment at not having received any answer to a note which I sent you above a week ago.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29
13  She instantly saw that it was not unnoticed by him, that he even observed Marianne as she quitted the room, with such astonishment and concern, as hardly left him the recollection of what civility demanded towards herself.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26
14  She acknowledged, therefore, that though she had never been informed by themselves of the terms on which they stood with each other, of their mutual affection she had no doubt, and of their correspondence she was not astonished to hear.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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15  In the present case it took up ten minutes to determine whether the boy were most like his father or mother, and in what particular he resembled either, for of course every body differed, and every body was astonished at the opinion of the others.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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16  Elinor placed all that was astonishing in this way of acting to his mother's account; and it was happy for her that he had a mother whose character was so imperfectly known to her, as to be the general excuse for every thing strange on the part of her son.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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17  "I do not doubt it," replied he, rather astonished at her earnestness and warmth; for had he not imagined it to be a joke for the good of her acquaintance in general, founded only on a something or a nothing between Mr. Willoughby and herself, he would not have ventured to mention it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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