COURSES in Classic Quotes

1  I inquired after their brother, of course.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26

2  Elizabeth, equally next to Jane in birth and beauty, succeeded her of course.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

3  The invitation was accepted of course, and at a proper hour they joined the party in Lady Catherine's drawing-room.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31

4  You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses is merely words of course.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

5  Something, he supposed, might be attributed to his connection with them, but yet he had never met with so much attention in the whole course of his life.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

6  In consequence of an agreement between the sisters, Elizabeth wrote the next morning to their mother, to beg that the carriage might be sent for them in the course of the day.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12

7  Regard for my sister's credit and feelings prevented any public exposure; but I wrote to Mr. Wickham, who left the place immediately, and Mrs. Younge was of course removed from her charge.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

8  An invitation to dinner was soon afterwards dispatched; and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

9  She had dressed with more than usual care, and prepared in the highest spirits for the conquest of all that remained unsubdued of his heart, trusting that it was not more than might be won in the course of the evening.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

10  Mrs. Gardiner, to whom the chief of this news had been given before, in the course of Jane and Elizabeth's correspondence with her, made her sister a slight answer, and, in compassion to her nieces, turned the conversation.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25

11  As for Jane, her anxiety under this suspense was, of course, more painful than Elizabeth's, but whatever she felt she was desirous of concealing, and between herself and Elizabeth, therefore, the subject was never alluded to.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23

12  Catherine was disconcerted, and made no answer; but Lydia, with perfect indifference, continued to express her admiration of Captain Carter, and her hope of seeing him in the course of the day, as he was going the next morning to London.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

13  Mrs. Bennet was perfectly satisfied, and quitted the house under the delightful persuasion that, allowing for the necessary preparations of settlements, new carriages, and wedding clothes, she should undoubtedly see her daughter settled at Netherfield in the course of three or four months.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

14  If your abhorrence of me should make my assertions valueless, you cannot be prevented by the same cause from confiding in my cousin; and that there may be the possibility of consulting him, I shall endeavour to find some opportunity of putting this letter in your hands in the course of the morning.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 35

15  After lamenting it, however, at some length, she had the consolation that Mr. Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn, and the conclusion of all was the comfortable declaration, that though he had been invited only to a family dinner, she would take care to have two full courses.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

16  Mrs. Bennet had been strongly inclined to ask them to stay and dine there that day; but, though she always kept a very good table, she did not think anything less than two courses could be good enough for a man on whom she had such anxious designs, or satisfy the appetite and pride of one who had ten thousand a year.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 53

17  A promise of secrecy was of course very dutifully given, but it could not be kept without difficulty; for the curiosity excited by his long absence burst forth in such very direct questions on his return as required some ingenuity to evade, and he was at the same time exercising great self-denial, for he was longing to publish his prosperous love.

Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22