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1  Elizabeth answered only by a slight bow.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 43
2  And with a bow to Mr. Darcy, he concluded his speech, which had been spoken so loud as to be heard by half the room.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
3  The officer was the very Mr. Denny concerning whose return from London Lydia came to inquire, and he bowed as they passed.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
4  And with a low bow he left her to attack Mr. Darcy, whose reception of his advances she eagerly watched, and whose astonishment at being so addressed was very evident.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
5  From these instructions they were summoned by the arrival of the coach; and with many speeches of thankfulness on Mr. Collins's side and as many bows on Sir William's they departed.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
6  He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was "very glad;" but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley's salutation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
7  Mr. Collins, however, was not discouraged from speaking again, and Mr. Darcy's contempt seemed abundantly increasing with the length of his second speech, and at the end of it he only made him a slight bow, and moved another way.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
8  At that moment, Sir William Lucas appeared close to them, meaning to pass through the set to the other side of the room; but on perceiving Mr. Darcy, he stopped with a bow of superior courtesy to compliment him on his dancing and his partner.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
9  Mr. Collins and Charlotte were both standing at the gate in conversation with the ladies; and Sir William, to Elizabeth's high diversion, was stationed in the doorway, in earnest contemplation of the greatness before him, and constantly bowing whenever Miss de Bourgh looked that way.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 28
10  Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham walked with the young ladies to the door of Mr. Phillip's house, and then made their bows, in spite of Miss Lydia's pressing entreaties that they should come in, and even in spite of Mrs. Phillips's throwing up the parlour window and loudly seconding the invitation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
11  His arrival was soon known at the Parsonage; for Mr. Collins was walking the whole morning within view of the lodges opening into Hunsford Lane, in order to have the earliest assurance of it, and after making his bow as the carriage turned into the Park, hurried home with the great intelligence.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 30
12  Mr. Darcy corroborated it with a bow, and was beginning to determine not to fix his eyes on Elizabeth, when they were suddenly arrested by the sight of the stranger, and Elizabeth happening to see the countenance of both as they looked at each other, was all astonishment at the effect of the meeting.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
13  In spite of having been at St. James's Sir William was so completely awed by the grandeur surrounding him, that he had but just courage enough to make a very low bow, and take his seat without saying a word; and his daughter, frightened almost out of her senses, sat on the edge of her chair, not knowing which way to look.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29