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Quotes from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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1 At such a time much might have been said, and silence was very awkward.
2 Their situation was awkward enough; but hers she thought was still worse.
3 It was my brother Gardiner's drawing up too, and I wonder how he came to make such an awkward business of it.
4 Elizabeth quietly answered "Undoubtedly;" and after an awkward pause, they returned to the rest of the family.
5 She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste.
6 By Mrs. Hurst and Miss Bingley they were noticed only by a curtsey; and, on their being seated, a pause, awkward as such pauses must always be, succeeded for a few moments.
7 She knew but little of their meeting in Derbyshire, and therefore felt for the awkwardness which must attend her sister, in seeing him almost for the first time after receiving his explanatory letter.
8 Mr. Collins, awkward and solemn, apologising instead of attending, and often moving wrong without being aware of it, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give.
9 It seemed like wilful ill-nature, or a voluntary penance, for on these occasions it was not merely a few formal inquiries and an awkward pause and then away, but he actually thought it necessary to turn back and walk with her.
10 At one time she had almost resolved on applying to him, but the idea was checked by the awkwardness of the application, and at length wholly banished by the conviction that Mr. Darcy would never have hazarded such a proposal, if he had not been well assured of his cousin's corroboration.
11 Elizabeth, feeling all the more than common awkwardness and anxiety of his situation, now forced herself to speak; and immediately, though not very fluently, gave him to understand that her sentiments had undergone so material a change, since the period to which he alluded, as to make her receive with gratitude and pleasure his present assurances.