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1  Lady Russell began talking of something else.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
2  Yet she soon began to rejoice that she had heard them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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3  The toils of the business were over, the sweets began.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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4  In all other respects, her visit began and proceeded very well.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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5  Soon, however, she began to reason with herself, and try to be feeling less.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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6  They had looked forward and arranged everything before the others began to reflect.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
7  As soon as they were out of sight, the ladies of Captain Wentworth's party began talking of them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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8  She could soon sit upright on the sofa, and began to hope she might be able to leave it by dinner-time.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
9  She saw Mrs Clay fairly off, therefore, before she began to talk of spending the morning in Rivers Street.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
10  When he questioned, Sir Walter and Elizabeth began to question also, but the difference in their manner of doing it could not be unfelt.
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11  But a week must pass; only a week, in Anne's reckoning, and then, she supposed, they must meet; and soon she began to wish that she could feel secure even for a week.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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12  It must be a work of time to ascertain that no injury had been done to the spine; but Mr Robinson found nothing to increase alarm, and Charles Musgrove began, consequently, to feel no necessity for longer confinement.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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13  There being nothing to eat, he could only have some play; and as his aunt would not let him tease his sick brother, he began to fasten himself upon her, as she knelt, in such a way that, busy as she was about Charles, she could not shake him off.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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14  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
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15  As soon as he could, he began to talk to her of Lyme, wanting to compare opinions respecting the place, but especially wanting to speak of the circumstance of their happening to be guests in the same inn at the same time; to give his own route, understand something of hers, and regret that he should have lost such an opportunity of paying his respects to her.
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16  It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple's carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance; she, Anne, and Mrs Clay, therefore, turned into Molland's, while Mr Elliot stepped to Lady Dalrymple, to request her assistance.
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17  Lady Russell and Mrs Croft were very well pleased with each other: but the acquaintance which this visit began was fated not to proceed far at present; for when it was returned, the Crofts announced themselves to be going away for a few weeks, to visit their connexions in the north of the county, and probably might not be at home again before Lady Russell would be removing to Bath.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
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