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1  One could not be connected with better people.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
2  He, who had ever boasted of being an Elliot, and whose feelings, as to connection, were only too strict to suit the unfeudal tone of the present day.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
3  She had no child to connect her with life and happiness again, no relations to assist in the arrangement of perplexed affairs, no health to make all the rest supportable.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
4  She looked down very decidedly upon the Hayters, and thought it would be quite a misfortune to have the existing connection between the families renewed--very sad for herself and her children.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
5  If Elizabeth and her father did not deceive themselves, had been taking much pains to seek the acquaintance, and proclaim the value of the connection, as he had formerly taken pains to shew neglect.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
6  I do not think any young woman has a right to make a choice that may be disagreeable and inconvenient to the principal part of her family, and be giving bad connections to those who have not been used to them.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
7  All equality of alliance must rest with Elizabeth, for Mary had merely connected herself with an old country family of respectability and large fortune, and had therefore given all the honour and received none: Elizabeth would, one day or other, marry suitably.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
8  But happily, either Anne was improved in plumpness and looks, or Lady Russell fancied her so; and Anne, in receiving her compliments on the occasion, had the amusement of connecting them with the silent admiration of her cousin, and of hoping that she was to be blessed with a second spring of youth and beauty.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13