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1  Mrs. Norris accepted the compliment, and admired the nice discernment of character which could so well distinguish merit.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Julia did suffer, however, though Mrs. Grant discerned it not, and though it escaped the notice of many of her own family likewise.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  Edmund did not discern any symptoms of regret, and thought his father a little unreasonable in supposing the first three or four days could produce any.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
4  If it be so, I am sure you must be included in that part, that discerning part, and therefore entreat you to let me know how far I have been rightly informed.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV
5  She had hoped that, to a man like her uncle, so discerning, so honourable, so good, the simple acknowledgment of settled dislike on her side would have been sufficient.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  Fanny thought she discerned in his standing there an indication of relenting, which encouraged her to another attempt, and she said, therefore, "It is a pity you should not join them."
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
7  Fanny was worth it all; he held her to be worth every effort of patience, every exertion of mind, but he did not think he could have gone on himself with any woman breathing, without something more to warm his courage than his eyes could discern in hers.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV