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1  You will be delighted with them I am sure.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
2  Lady Elliott was delighted with the thought.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36
3  I am delighted with the plan," she cried, "it is exactly what I could wish.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
4  A continuance in a place where everything reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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5  They both seemed delighted with their drive; but said only in general terms that they had kept in the lanes, while the others went on the downs.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13
6  But Sir John did not sport long with the curiosity which he delighted to raise, for he had at least as much pleasure in telling the name, as Miss Steele had in hearing it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
7  Sir John was delighted; for to a man, whose prevailing anxiety was the dread of being alone, the acquisition of two, to the number of inhabitants in London, was something.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
8  But Sir John's satisfaction in society was much more real; he delighted in collecting about him more young people than his house would hold, and the noisier they were the better was he pleased.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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9  Even Lady Middleton took the trouble of being delighted, which was putting herself rather out of her way; and as for the Miss Steeles, especially Lucy, they had never been so happy in their lives as this intelligence made them.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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10  Marianne was afraid of offending, and said no more on the subject; but the kind of approbation which Elinor described as excited in him by the drawings of other people, was very far from that rapturous delight, which, in her opinion, could alone be called taste.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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11  Their dress was very smart, their manners very civil, they were delighted with the house, and in raptures with the furniture, and they happened to be so doatingly fond of children that Lady Middleton's good opinion was engaged in their favour before they had been an hour at the Park.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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12  They had not long finished their breakfast before Mrs. Palmer's barouche stopped at the door, and in a few minutes she came laughing into the room: so delighted to see them all, that it was hard to say whether she received most pleasure from meeting her mother or the Miss Dashwoods again.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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13  In Mrs. Dashwood's estimation he was as faultless as in Marianne's; and Elinor saw nothing to censure in him but a propensity, in which he strongly resembled and peculiarly delighted her sister, of saying too much what he thought on every occasion, without attention to persons or circumstances.
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14  Sir John was ready to like anybody, and though Mr. Dashwood did not seem to know much about horses, he soon set him down as a very good-natured fellow: while Lady Middleton saw enough of fashion in his appearance to think his acquaintance worth having; and Mr. Dashwood went away delighted with both.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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15  Most grateful did Elinor feel to Lady Middleton for observing, at this moment, "that it rained very hard," though she believed the interruption to proceed less from any attention to her, than from her ladyship's great dislike of all such inelegant subjects of raillery as delighted her husband and mother.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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16  With the size and furniture of the house Mrs. Dashwood was upon the whole well satisfied; for though her former style of life rendered many additions to the latter indispensable, yet to add and improve was a delight to her; and she had at this time ready money enough to supply all that was wanted of greater elegance to the apartments.
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17  His pleasure in music, though it amounted not to that ecstatic delight which alone could sympathize with her own, was estimable when contrasted against the horrible insensibility of the others; and she was reasonable enough to allow that a man of five and thirty might well have outlived all acuteness of feeling and every exquisite power of enjoyment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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