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1  Knowing their feelings as she did, it was a most attractive picture of happiness to her.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  Without that attraction, not all her money would have tempted Elliot, and Sir Walter was, moreover, assured of her having been a very fine woman.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
3  Henrietta was perhaps the prettiest, Louisa had the higher spirits; and she knew not now, whether the more gentle or the more lively character were most likely to attract him.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
4  He had intended, on first arriving, to proceed very soon into Shropshire, and visit the brother settled in that country, but the attractions of Uppercross induced him to put this off.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
5  Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love; but the encounter of such lavish recommendations could not fail.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
6  But Mary did not give into it very graciously, whether from not considering Captain Benwick entitled by birth and situation to be in love with an Elliot, or from not wanting to believe Anne a greater attraction to Uppercross than herself, must be left to be guessed.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
7  Mrs Clay had freckles, and a projecting tooth, and a clumsy wrist, which he was continually making severe remarks upon, in her absence; but she was young, and certainly altogether well-looking, and possessed, in an acute mind and assiduous pleasing manners, infinitely more dangerous attractions than any merely personal might have been.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5