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1  They had taken out a young dog, who had spoilt their sport, and sent them back early.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
2  He said he should not stay out long; but he has never come back, and now it is almost one.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
3  He had the curacy of Monkford, you know, Sir Walter, some time back, for two or three years.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
4  Her brother and sister came back delighted with their new acquaintance, and their visit in general.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
5  He had a pleasing face and a melancholy air, just as he ought to have, and drew back from conversation.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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6  They were, consequently, to stay the night there, and not to be expected back till the next day's dinner.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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7  His collar-bone was found to be dislocated, and such injury received in the back, as roused the most alarming ideas.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
8  Once she did contrive to push him away, but the boy had the greater pleasure in getting upon her back again directly.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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9  "I beg your pardon, madam, this is your seat;" and though she immediately drew back with a decided negative, he was not to be induced to sit down again.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
10  I have crossed the Atlantic four times, and have been once to the East Indies, and back again, and only once; besides being in different places about home: Cork, and Lisbon, and Gibraltar.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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11  A short absence from home had left his fair one unguarded by his attentions at this critical period, and when he came back he had the pain of finding very altered manners, and of seeing Captain Wentworth.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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12  They came also for a stroll till breakfast was likely to be ready; but Louisa recollecting, immediately afterwards that she had something to procure at a shop, invited them all to go back with her into the town.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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13  Anne, really tired herself, was glad to sit down; and she very soon heard Captain Wentworth and Louisa in the hedge-row, behind her, as if making their way back along the rough, wild sort of channel, down the centre.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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14  She should put it off as long as she could; but was not easy till she had talked Charles into driving her over on an early day, and was in a very animated, comfortable state of imaginary agitation, when she came back.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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15  A very few days more, and Captain Wentworth was known to be at Kellynch, and Mr Musgrove had called on him, and come back warm in his praise, and he was engaged with the Crofts to dine at Uppercross, by the end of another week.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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16  As soon as she could, she went after Mary, and having found, and walked back with her to their former station, by the stile, felt some comfort in their whole party being immediately afterwards collected, and once more in motion together.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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17  She tried to dissuade Mary from going, but in vain; and that being the case, thought it best to accept the Miss Musgroves' much more cordial invitation to herself to go likewise, as she might be useful in turning back with her sister, and lessening the interference in any plan of their own.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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