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1  Anne sometimes fancied she discerned him at a distance, but he never came.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
2  Before Sir Walter had reached this point, Anne's eyes had caught the right direction, and distinguished Captain Wentworth standing among a cluster of men at a little distance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
3  Anne had not wanted this visit to Uppercross, to learn that a removal from one set of people to another, though at a distance of only three miles, will often include a total change of conversation, opinion, and idea.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  The elegant little clock on the mantel-piece had struck "eleven with its silver sounds," and the watchman was beginning to be heard at a distance telling the same tale, before Mr Elliot or any of them seemed to feel that he had been there long.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  The following morning Anne was out with her friend, and for the first hour, in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain; but at last, in returning down Pulteney Street, she distinguished him on the right hand pavement at such a distance as to have him in view the greater part of the street.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
6  I told him the distance and the road, and I told him of the church's being so very well worth seeing; for as he has a taste for those sort of things, I thought that would be a good excuse, and he listened with all his understanding and soul; and I am sure from his manner that you will have him calling here soon.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
7  It began to rain, not much, but enough to make shelter desirable for women, and quite enough to make it very desirable for Miss Elliot to have the advantage of being conveyed home in Lady Dalrymple's carriage, which was seen waiting at a little distance; she, Anne, and Mrs Clay, therefore, turned into Molland's, while Mr Elliot stepped to Lady Dalrymple, to request her assistance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19