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1  You saw I did not all dinner time.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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2  After dinner she would try her piano-forte.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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3  With great surprise therefore, did she find herself prevented by a settled rain from going out again after dinner.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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4  They saw nothing of Marianne till dinner time, when she entered the room and took her place at the table without saying a word.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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5  I mean never to be later in rising than six, and from that time till dinner I shall divide every moment between music and reading.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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6  But they had no curiosity to see how Mr. and Mrs. Palmer ate their dinner, and no expectation of pleasure from them in any other way.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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7  She could scarcely eat any dinner, and when they afterwards returned to the drawing room, seemed anxiously listening to the sound of every carriage.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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8  Some more of the Careys came to dinner, and they had the pleasure of sitting down nearly twenty to table, which Sir John observed with great contentment.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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9  The dinner was a grand one, the servants were numerous, and every thing bespoke the Mistress's inclination for show, and the Master's ability to support it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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10  As dinner was not to be ready in less than two hours from their arrival, Elinor determined to employ the interval in writing to her mother, and sat down for that purpose.
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11  Lady Middleton seemed to be roused to enjoyment only by the entrance of her four noisy children after dinner, who pulled her about, tore her clothes, and put an end to every kind of discourse except what related to themselves.
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12  The two gentlemen arrived the next day to a very late dinner, affording a pleasant enlargement of the party, and a very welcome variety to their conversation, which a long morning of the same continued rain had reduced very low.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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13  She was full of jokes and laughter, and before dinner was over had said many witty things on the subject of lovers and husbands; hoped they had not left their hearts behind them in Sussex, and pretended to see them blush whether they did or not.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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14  Would either of them only have given her a full and minute account of the whole affair between Marianne and Mr. Willoughby, she would have thought herself amply rewarded for the sacrifice of the best place by the fire after dinner, which their arrival occasioned.
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15  Mrs. Dashwood's and Elinor's appetites were equally lost, and Margaret might think herself very well off, that with so much uneasiness as both her sisters had lately experienced, so much reason as they had often had to be careless of their meals, she had never been obliged to go without her dinner before.
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16  Elinor, pleased to have her governed for a moment by such a motive, though believing it hardly possible that she could sit out the dinner, said no more; and adjusting her dress for her as well as she could, while Marianne still remained on the bed, was ready to assist her into the dining room as soon as they were summoned to it.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
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