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1  I found that Miss Darcy was expected to dinner.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 26
2  He was interrupted by a summons to dinner; and the girls smiled on each other.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
3  At five o'clock the two ladies retired to dress, and at half-past six Elizabeth was summoned to dinner.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  When dinner was over, she returned directly to Jane, and Miss Bingley began abusing her as soon as she was out of the room.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  The dinner too in its turn was highly admired; and he begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cooking was owing.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
6  Mrs. Bennet had so carefully provided for the entertainment of her brother and sister, that they did not once sit down to a family dinner.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 25
7  The rest of the evening was spent in conjecturing how soon he would return Mr. Bennet's visit, and determining when they should ask him to dinner.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
8  Mr. Collins was carefully instructing them in what they were to expect, that the sight of such rooms, so many servants, and so splendid a dinner, might not wholly overpower them.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
9  While they were dressing, he came two or three times to their different doors, to recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
10  She resolved to give her the information herself, and therefore charged Mr. Collins, when he returned to Longbourn to dinner, to drop no hint of what had passed before any of the family.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
11  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.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
12  Their visitors stayed with them above half-an-hour; and when they arose to depart, Mr. Darcy called on his sister to join him in expressing their wish of seeing Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner, and Miss Bennet, to dinner at Pemberley, before they left the country.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 44
13  During dinner, Mr. Bennet scarcely spoke at all; but when the servants were withdrawn, he thought it time to have some conversation with his guest, and therefore started a subject in which he expected him to shine, by observing that he seemed very fortunate in his patroness.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
14  The dinner was exceedingly handsome, and there were all the servants and all the articles of plate which Mr. Collins had promised; and, as he had likewise foretold, he took his seat at the bottom of the table, by her ladyship's desire, and looked as if he felt that life could furnish nothing greater.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
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  When at length they arose to take leave, Mrs. Bennet was most pressingly civil in her hope of seeing the whole family soon at Longbourn, and addressed herself especially to Mr. Bingley, to assure him how happy he would make them by eating a family dinner with them at any time, without the ceremony of a formal invitation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
17  When the ladies removed after dinner, Elizabeth ran up to her sister, and seeing her well guarded from cold, attended her into the drawing-room, where she was welcomed by her two friends with many professions of pleasure; and Elizabeth had never seen them so agreeable as they were during the hour which passed before the gentlemen appeared.
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ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
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